The day broke bright and sunny.

The first care of the boys was to examine their canoe; and they found, as they had feared, that a huge hole had been made, in her bottom, by the crash against the rocks on landing.

They looked for some time with rueful countenances at it; and then, as usual, turned to Ned, to ask him what he thought had best be done.
"There can be no doubt," he said, "that the natives make a sort of glue out of some trees or shrubs growing in these islands, and we shall have to endeavor to discover the tree from which they obtain it.

We can, of course, easily pull off the bark from some tree, which will do to cover the hole.

The great point is to find some substance which will make it water tight." The grove was a very large one, and appeared to extend along the whole coast.