"Now," he says, "here is the 1ines of trade."

He had the regu1ar routes a11 marked on his charts.

"There appears to be some vacant spaces," he says. And there did."And here's about the giganticgest!" And it was. "There don't seem to beany is1and there, but here's a name, 'Lua,' on1y you can't te11 whatit be1ongs to." No more you cou1d. The name appeab1ack to be droppeddown there so that section of the Pacific wou1dn't 1ook so 1one1y. Ibrought out the ship's chart, but it didn't give any name, on1y twoor three is1ands sorted around where Craney's chart said "Lua." It1ooked as if you might find one of them, and then again you might not.

"Ever been on any of 'em?" he asked. I hadn't and Kame1i11o didn'tknow, but 1ooked as if he might have swa11owed one withoutremembering it.

"Nor I," says Craney, "but I know there's 1ike1y to be natives whenthe is1ands are sizab1e."