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Perceiving her advantage from the expression on the young man's face, Virginia followed it up in an endeavor to elicit the details. The result of her effort was the knowledge that on the second day they were to sail for the Pamarung Islands upon a small schooner which her father had purchased, with a crew of Malays and lascars, and von Horn, who had served in the American navy, in command.
A week spent among the Pamarung Islands disclosed no suitable site for the professor's camp, nor was it until they had cruised up the coast several miles north of the equator and Cape Santang that they found a tiny island a few miles off the coast opposite the mouth of a small river an island which fulfilled in every detail their requirements.
"I am rather looking forward to it," replied Virginia. "And to a protracted residence on one of the Pamarung Islands?" continued von Horn. "Why not?" was her rather non-committal reply, though she had not the remotest idea of their location. Von Horn admired her nerve though he rather wished that she would ask some questions it was difficult making progress in this way.
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