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One day, what seemed a beautiful green cloud appeared in the north-west. It seemed to hang 'twixt sea and horizon.
Teenie was convinced it was fairy-land. It was no cloud, however. A peep through the captain's long glass brought into view not only the tall cocoanut trees with their waving tops, but the trees and bushes beneath, and the coral sands, on which numerous black and semi-nude figures were running about, and even pointing to the ship.