Ned and Jerry stopped. They looked at their companion.
“I’m afraid we’ve done rather a foolish thing,” he said. “Have either of you a compass?”
The boys said they had not.
“Neither have I,” went on Mr. Snodgrass. “I left mine in the tent. We should have been more careful. I don’t know in what direction we are going, nor which way to go back. This island is larger than I thought.”
“Do you think we’re lost?” asked Ned, in some alarm.
“Yes, boys, it looks very much as though we were lost in a floating forest, and I think we’ll have trouble in getting back to camp.”