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Then we 'll make up a grand hunting party , and everybody will get a tiger , eh ? '' `` Bully ! '' exclaimed Mart eagerly , and departed to his wireless with a sheaf of messages to be sent off via Honolulu . Having sent them and arranged for answers to be sent at two o'clock that afternoon , he rejoined Bob and went down to mess . That afternoon they gained their last sight of land for many days , as the _ Seamew _ entered the Kamukahi Channel , passing between the green-clad hills of Niihau and Kauai , and then struck out on her straight course for the southernmost of the Philippines , with nearly five thousand miles of sea before her and seventeen days of journeying , if all went well . For two days all went well , indeed , and then came on what Liverpool Peters described as a moderate gale , but which seemed like a hurricane to Mart . They had had fine weather so far , and Mart had long ago dismissed all thoughts of seasickness , but now he gave up completely .