CHAPTER XVII.
WHAT BOY HAS DONE, BOY MAY DO.
There was one place that I wished, particularly, to visit before I left, and that was what the people in Nassau called the Coral-reef.

There were lots of coral-reefs all about the islands, but this one was easily visited, and for this reason, I suppose, was chosen as a representative of its class.

I had been there before, and had seen all the wonders of the reef through a water-glass,--which is a wooden box, with a pane of glass at one end and open at the other.

You hold the glass end of this box just under the water, and put your face to the open end, and then you can see down under the water, exactly as if you were looking through the air.

And on this coral-reef, where the water was not more than twelve or fourteen feet deep, there were lots of beautiful things to see.