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　　An amazing discovery
　　The lagoon¹ was quite deep. Jack² could not swim to the bottom, because he couldn’t possibly holdhis breath long enough. He came up, gasping³.
　　‘All I could see was a pile of silvery stuff lying on the bottom,’ he gasped⁴ to the others.
　　‘Nothing else at all. I couldn’t go right down to it, because I hadn’t enough breath.’
　　‘Well, that’s not much use,’ said Dinah. ‘We want to see what’s inside the waterproof⁵ wrapping– tear it off, so that we can see what it holds.’
　　‘We wouldn’t be able to do that very easily,’ said Philip. ‘I bet it’s sewn up pretty tightly – orsealed in some clever way. I’ll go down, Jack – perhaps I can get near enough to feel what’sinside.’
　　‘Oh dear – do be careful,’ said Lucy-Ann. ‘You don’t know what might be inside!’
　　‘Well – it’s hardly likely to be anything that will eat us,’ grinned Jack. ‘Kiki, why don’t you doa little diving, like Huffin and Puffin do – you could be a bit of help then!’
　　But Kiki did not approve of all this love of bathing. She flew about above the children in thewater and tried occasionally to perch⁶ on a bare shoulder. Huffin and Puffin loved having thechildren in the water, and swam and dived beside them, uttering deep arrrrrs of satisfaction.
　　Philip dived under, and swam rapidly downwards⁷, his eyes wide open in the salt water. Farbelow him he saw the silvery mass, gleaming dimly on the lagoon bed. He swam right down to it,and put out his hand to touch it. Beneath the wrapping he felt something very hard indeed.
　　Then, his breath giving out, he rose up to the surface, almost bursting. He took in great

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