20 
THE STRANGELAND BIRD LIFE 
every day he journeyed south, and now at last 
his ship had put in at a port, and though he 
had watched the port carefully, the ship had 
disappeared in the night, and he was unable to 
tell where it had gone. 
“Those were good sailors, and I always 
had plenty to eat. I am sorry I missed them,” 
he said thoughtfully to himself. “Have they 
gone out of the harbor into the open sea? 
Where could they have gone?” 
The worst part of it was that he had found 
no one to ask about it. So many folks down 
here spoke strange tongues! Almost all of 
them did, in fact, and Stormy could see as he 
watched them that half the time they could not 
understand even one another. 
But just as he was walking down the beach 
trying to solve these new life problems he heard 
someone shouting in a language he understood. 
It was a brownish dog who had come down to 
