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Next day our steamer was to sail.

We got Starlight to come down with us and show us how to take our passage.

We'd never done it before, and felt awkward at it.

He'd made up his mind to go to New Zealand, and after that to Honolulu, perhaps to America.
'I'm not sure that I'll ever come back, boys,' he said, 'and if I were you I don't think I would either.