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to their bunks for sleep, while the rest busied themselves repairing the damage that the storm had done to the ship. But it was two days before things were again quite normal.

Ali and the Sahib spent much of their time together upon the hurricane deck, and here it was that the white man began the small brown boy's education.

He first taught him to count and to figure small sums, and to his astonishment he found Ali very bright.

Then he taught him the stars. He first showed him the North Star, to which the "Pointers," two stars forming one side of the Big Dipper, were guides. He also showed him the Little Dipper, and the Sword of Orion, and the Southern Cross. Then he taught him a little geography, and other information which he would