And next I thought, "When I've grown up big, and have money of my own,
and a full-sized walking-stick, I will set out early one morning, and
never stop till I get to that little walled town." There ought to be no
real difficulty in the task. It only meant asking here and asking there,
and people were very obliging, and I could describe every stick and
stone of it.
As for the island which I had never even seen, that was not so easy. Yet
I felt confident that somehow, at some time, sooner or later, I was
destined to arrive.