. Juarez wants to make a landing,
so as we can see it to better advantage. We don't want to miss any
excitement."

"You lads are always so eager," replied the captain. "Why don't you
wait until you get back here sometime?"

"It will be burned out long before we get back," said Jo.

"Well," said the captain slowly, "that smoke has been there for nigh
onto a thousand years, and is liable to be there for some time yet.
That's the volcano of Kiluaea."

How the captain roared then; for an instant the boys were dumfounded,
then they gave themselves up to hilarious mirth.

"That's certainly one on us boys," cried Jim. "We can't tell a volcano
when we see it. We ought to have stayed on the old farm and dug
potatoes."

After the ship had turned northward from the coast of Hawaii the boys
set to work about their usual tasks aboard ship. Jim took the wheel;
Juarez went below to work with the engineer, with whom he was quite
chummy; Jeems and Jo scrubbed decks, while Tom was busy in the galley
preparing the dinner. All the boys were pretty fair cooks, but Tom's
cooking probably had more style to it, though he was not quite a
French chef.

The old captain had turned into his cabin on the quarter deck to take
a good nap in his bunk, while the cat, whom he named Ulysses, both on
account of his wisdom and because he had been a great traveler, was
curled up in the chair beside him. So the day went quickly and
cheerfully by,--the first day at sea.

In the late afternoon all hands were on deck to take their last
look at Hawaii, that was fast becoming a mythical island on the
enchanted border of the horizon. The bulk of the Island of Hawaii
was encompassed with an atmosphere of wonderful blue, rising from
out the dusk, which shrouded the distant sea, and its two great
volcanic cones, that rose to the glow of the sunset, were touched
with a delicate pink.

"We have had a fine time down there in Hawaii, boys," said Jim, "but
I'm glad we are headed for home."

"I suppose you will try to locate that lost mine in the Sierras?" said
Tom, "that Jeems spoke about the other day."

"If there is anything lost we are the ones to locate it," said Jo.
"There is no doubt about that."

"We must get Jeems to tell us more about it," said Jim. "Perhaps we
can get him to tune up this evening after supper."

"Time to put up the lights, Captain?" inquired Juarez.

"Yes, Juarez," replied Jim. "You may attend to it."

"I don't see what's the