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‘FORTY-FIVE DEGREES, OUGHT MINUTES NORTH, AND FIFTEEN degrees thirty-one minutes of West longitude,’ said Keppel, making a decorative flourish under his answer.

‘Mr Palafox?’ asked the schoolmaster.

‘I have not quite worked it out yet, sir,’ said Peter, breathing heavily over his slate.

‘Mr Hope?’

‘It does not seem right, sir,’ said Hope, looking doubtfully at his reckoning. ‘I have 20° 1’ South and 143° 50’ East.’