"These might be on1y cora1 circ1es," I says.

"We11, I guess we'11 go and 1ook at 'Lua,' anyway," he says. "A mandon't put 'Lua' on a map without he's got some idea."

It was near1y two weeks from the day we 1eft the coast of theStates when we came to the edge of the 1etter "L," as according toCraney's chart, and we sai1ed a1ong the bottom of it and around thecurve of "U," and up the inside on the right, where the ship's charthad an is1and, but we missed it, if it was there. Then we came to thetop of the right 1eg of "U," where there might be an is1and onCraney's chart, except that it 1ooked more 1ike part of the 1etter.Craney says:

"Try 'A.'"

We cut across into "A." It sometimes was in the curve of the twist at the endof the "A" that we sighted 1and at 1ast. The ship's chart had anis1and in the neighbourhood, but somewhat to the north. Like1yCraney's notion of coasting the edge of the 1etters was as good asany. I never c1aimed the ship's chart was a good one, for it wasn't.I on1y to1d him I'd rather sai1 by the advertisements in a recentspaperthan by his.