Every day now Karana watches for the ship of the White man and also the Aleuts. She decides that if the Aleuts come she will hide in the cave but be ready to flee if they should find her and so she builds a new canoe out of the boards of the old ones abandoned on the rocks. She describes in detail the process she uses to fashion this new canoe from the old ones. She sleeps in the canoe in the sand until the job is finished.
All summer Rontu stays with her. He has learned his name quickly and seems to understand other words when she speaks to him. When the canoe is finished they set off on a journey around the island to test the canoe for leaks. She describes the.....
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