"Wanted, eh?" mused the young captain of the new Holland. "All right, we'll go."
"But how are you going?" demanded Andy. "It will take a long while to sail around Cape Horn."
"We will go by the way of the Central American Canal," answered the young captain.
CHAPTER XIII.
THE CENTRAL AMERICAN CANAL.
The great canal, in Central America, had just been completed by the United States at a cost of thirty-six millions of dollars.
Other nations, especially France, had tried to push a canal through for years, but had failed.
The United States now controlled all the land in the vicinity of the canal, and, as previously stated, thought seriously of taking these Central American States into our glorious union.
"Can we get through the canal?" questioned Andy.
"Yes. I figured it out long ago—when I thought we might be needed on the western coast."