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`` Say , Bob , I 'll go along , if you say the word , '' he said . `` I 'm sick of Sea Cove and the mean folks living around here . '' `` All right . '' That noon , when Bob returned home he found Captain Sumner present , talking to his mother . The captain had come to offer Bob a position on his yacht . `` I would like to go -- if you 're going up the coast , '' said Bob . `` I want to get to Alaska , and then to Cedar Island , off Siberia . ''