really properly,” he said, “but this is a sketch chart and we’ll do a good one after we get home.”
“A huge one,” said Roger, “like daddy’s chart of the China Seas.”
“And we’ll hang it up on the schoolroom wall to show where we’ve been,” said Susan.
“And to plan more explorings,” said Titty.
“Will it have colours?” said Roger.
“Colours for the lights. We’ll put a blob of yellow for our lighthouse and two little blobs for the leading lights.”
“What colour will the land be?”
“They leave the land white on charts. It doesn’t count, except where you can see it from a ship. And even then only bits of it count. They’d put in Darien, because it’s a high point, but they wouldn’t bother to mark Holly Howe.”