scratched her head.

"Did you ask the black parrots?" asked Polynesia. "They usually
know everything."

"Certainly I did," said Miranda. "And I was so upset at not
being able to find out anything, that I forgot all about
observing the weather-signs before I started my flight here. I
didn't even bother to break my journey at the Azores, but cut
right across, making for the Straits of Gibraltar--as though it
were June or July. And of course I ran into a perfectly
frightful storm in mid-Atlantic. I really thought I'd never come
through it. Luckily I found a piece of a wrecked vessel floating
in the sea after the storm had partly died down; and I roosted on
it and took some sleep. If I hadn't been able to take that rest I
wouldn't be here to tell the tale."

"Poor Miranda! What a time you must have had!" said the Doctor.
"But tell me, were you able to find out whereabouts Long Arrow
was last seen?"

"Yes. A young albatross told me he had seen him on Spidermonkey
Island?"

"Spidermonkey Island? That's somewhere off the coast of Brazil,
isn't it?"

"Yes, that's it. Of course I flew there right away and asked
every bird on the island--and it is a big island, a hundred miles
long. It seems that Long Arrow was visiting some peculiar Indians