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 36 . "I'm too excited. I want to go upstairs again and see them start."

"Well, this is your first trip," said Polynesia, "You will get used to the life after a while." And she went back up the stairs of the ship, humming this song to herself,

They were just going to start on their journey, when the Doctor said he would have to go back and ask the sailor the way to Africa.

But the swallow said she had been to that country many times and would show them how to get there.

So the Doctor told Chee-Chee to pull up the anchor and the voyage began.