You've hit upon the very island where Long Arrow was last seen on
earth--I wonder--Well, well! How very singular!"

"We'll go there, Doctor, won't we?" I asked.

"Of course we will. The rules of the game say we've got to."

"I'm so glad it wasn't Oxenthorpe or Bristol," I said. "It'll be
a grand voyage, this. Look at all the sea we've got to cross.
Will it take us long?"

"Oh, no," said the Doctor--"not very. With a good boat and a
good wind we should make it easily in four weeks. But isn't it
extraordinary? Of all the places in the world you picked out that
one with your eyes shut. Spidermonkey Island after all!--Well,
there's one good thing about it: I shall be able to get some
Jabizri beetles."

"What are Jabizri beetles?"

"They are a very rare kind of beetles with peculiar habits. I
want to study them. There are only three countries in the world
where they are to be found. Spidermonkey Island is one of them.
But even there they are very scarce."

"What is this little question-mark after the name of the island
for?" I asked, pointing to the map.

"That means that the island's position in the ocean is not known
very exactly--that it is somewhere ABOUT there. Ships have