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And I truly believe he would have spent the remainder of his days on Spidermonkey Island if it hadn't been for an accident and for Polynesia. The old parrot had grown very tired of the Indians and she made no secret of it. "The very idea," she said to me one day as we were walking on the seashore "the idea of the famous John Dolittle spending his valuable life waiting on these greasy natives!
"It looks a lovely island on the map. Will there be black men there?" "No. A peculiar tribe of Red Indians lives on it, Miranda tells me." At this point the poor Bird-of-Paradise stirred and woke up. In our excitement we had forgotten to speak low. "We are going to Spidermonkey Island, Miranda," said the Doctor. "You know where it is, do you not?"
"I'm afraid you'll have hard work to get out of it now," said she "unless you're willing to put to sea again in one of their rickety canoes. You see you've been elected not merely the Chief of the Popsipetels; you're to be a king the King of the whole of Spidermonkey Island.
"It'll be a grand voyage, this. Look at all the sea we've got to cross. Will it take us long?" "Oh, no," said the Doctor "not very. With a good boat and a good wind we should make it easily in four weeks. But isn't it extraordinary? Of all the places in the world you picked out that one with your eyes shut. Spidermonkey Island after all!
His name deserves to be placed beside Linnaeus. Some day I must get all these things to England But when," he added sadly "Yes, that's the problem: when?" FOR a long time after that Cabinet Meeting of which I have just told you we did not ask the Doctor anything further about going home. Life in Spidermonkey Island went forward, month in month out, busily and pleasantly.
Spidermonkey Island had come to rest on the sandy bottom of the Atlantic, and earth was joined to earth once more. Of course many of the houses near the shores were now under water. Popsipetel Village itself had entirely disappeared. But it didn't matter. No one was drowned; for every soul in the island was high up in the hills watching the coronation of King Jong.
Speeding up our boat lest the island be carried away from us altogether, we passed on up the coast; and here and there we noticed that the trees on the shore already looked greener and more healthy. Spidermonkey Island was getting back into her home climates. About halfway to Popsipetel we went ashore and spent two or three days exploring the central part of the island.
In fact I sometimes think that that speech of his from the palace-steps had more effect upon the Indians of Spidermonkey Island than had any of his great deeds which, great though they were, were always magnified and exaggerated when the news of them was passed from mouth to mouth. A sick girl was brought to him as he reached the place where the boats lay.
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