? ? ? ? "Where is America?" he said.
? ? ? ? D'Arnot pointed toward the northwest.
? ? ? ? "Many thousands of miles across the ocean," he replied. "Why?"
? ? ? ? "I am going there."
? ? ? ? D'Arnot shook his head.
? ? ? ? "It is impossible, my friend," he said.
? ? ? ? Tarzan rose, and, going to one of the cupboards, returned with a well-thumbed geography.
? ? ? ? Turning to a map of the world, he said:
? ? ? ? "I have never quite understood all this; explain it to me, please."
? ? ? ? When D'Arnot had done so, showing him that the blue represented all the water on the earth, and the bits of other colors the continents and islands, Tarzan asked him to point out the spot where they now were.
? ? ? ? D'Arnot did so.
? ? ? ? "Now point out America," said Tarzan.
? ? ? ? And as D'Arnot placed his finger upon North America, Tarzan smiled and laid his palm upon the page, spanning the great ocean that lay between the two continents.
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