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Your wife and daughters will find as many surprising things to interest them as the boys will discover . '' The run from Rescue to Wonder Island , would occupy , ordinarily , about ten hours , of a complete day , and for that reason the start was made early in the morning . Unity was about eight miles from the sea , on a large stream , and it was desirable to make the run through the river by daylight . But shortly before noon a wind sprang up from the west , and it increased in intensity , so that shortly after the noon hour they were compelled to make a long tack to the south . This meant a night on board ship , and a stormy one at that . The wide , wide sea , without the sign of any land in sight was , indeed , a fascinating thing to the natives , and how they admired the native sailors with whom they readily fraternized . They watched every movement , the taking down of the sails , the changing of the angles of the great sheets , as they turned in their course , the handling of the tiller , and all the paraphernalia of sailing , for the _ Pioneer _ depended principally on her sailing capacity , and not on the small engine with which she was equipped .