How strange the raft did look, to be sure.

He wouldn't have believed its appearance could have been so altered, and now wondered that he had ever recognized it.

In fact, the only feature that seemed at all familiar, as he studied it, was the forward gable end of the "shanty." But somehow the building itself appeared much longer than when he last saw it.

Still, there was that interior.

He had seen the partition, with its door leading into his own little room, and he never heard of a raft "shanty" with a partition in it until this one was built.