"I never did have a fight at school."
During the next few days they sailed slowly on at a short distance from
the coast of the long island of Java, and except that the weather was
very hot, and that they could see in the distance mountain after
mountain rising up like a huge, blunt cone, several of them showing a
cloud of smoke drifting slowly away before the wind, sailing here seemed
in nowise different from by the coast of Spain or Portugal. But Jack
was to see the difference before long.