Toward this they steered and in a little while Jackie Tar, who had been watching very closely, cried out that it was Venice.
And they sailed toward Venice, which, as you know, is a city in Italy, and is built on a number of little islands and the streets are nearly all of water.
"I think it is silly to go on," said Sweetclover, "for we know that Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather are not here, but somewhere in the mines."
"That's so," said Kernel Cob, "Let's turn 'round and sail for the South Pole again."
"Please don't," said the Villain, "I couldn't stand it. Isn't there some way that we can get to the South Pole by walking?"
"Not that I know of," said Jackie Tar, "unless you were a crab and crawled along the bottom of the ocean."
"Very well," said the Villain. "I'll try not to complain."
"Cheer up," said Kernel Cob, "all our troubles are over," and so he thought, for the sea wasn't any rougher than the water in a bath tub.
But often when you think there isn't anything going to happen, that's just the time when it does.
You see the raft had been blown about a great deal, so it wasn't very strange that the pieces of wood had come apart here and there.