CHAPTER XIII 

Captain Doane worked hard, pursuing the sun in its daily course through the sky, by the equation of time correcting its aberrations due to the earth's swinging around the great circle of its orbit, and charting Sumner lines innumerable, working assumed latitudes for position until his head grew dizzy. 

Simon Nishikanta sneered openly at what he considered the captain's inefficient navigation, and continued to paint water-colours when he was serene, and to shoot at whales, sea-birds, and all things hurtable when he was downhearted and sea-sore with disappointment at not sighting the Lion's Head peak of the Ancient Mariner's treasure island. 

"I'll show I ain't a pincher," Nishikanta announced one day, after having broiled at the mast-head for five hours of sea-searching. "Captain Doane, how much could we have bought extra chronometers for in San Francisco--good second-hand ones, I mean?" 

"Say a hundred dollars," the captain answered. 

"Very well. And this ain't a piker's proposition. The cost of such a chronometer would have been divided between the three of us. I stand for its total cost. You just tell the sailors that I, Simon Nishikanta, will pay one hundred dollars gold money for the first one that sights land on Mr. Greenleaf's latitude and longitude." 

But the sailors who swarmed the mast-heads were doomed to disappointment, in that for only two days did they have opportunity to stare the ocean surface for the reward. Nor was this due entirely to Dag Daughtry, despite the fact that his own intention and act would have been sufficient to spoil their chance for longer staring.  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. What is the name of the captain?
2. Which person is the captain?
3. 
Q2:
1. Which person didn’t like Doane’s navigation?
2. What person didn’t like Doane’s navigation?
3. 
Q3:
1. What is Simon’s last name?
2. What is Simon ’s family name?
3. 
Q4:
1. Does Simon paint?
2. Is Simon a painter?
3. 
Q5:
1. What was shot at by Simon?
2. What did Simon aim at?
3. 
Q6:
1. Other than whales , what did Simon also shoot at?
2. Besides whales what did Simon also shoot at?
3. 
Q7:
1. 
2. 
3. 
Q8:
1. Was the lion’s head seen?
2. Had Simon seen the lion’s head?
3. 
Q9:
1. What was Simon feeling?
2. How did Simon feel?
3. 
Q10:
1. How long did Simon stay at the mast head?
2. For what amount of time had Simon stayed at the mast head?
3. 
Q11:
1. Was Simon questioning himself about the price of something?
2. Was the price of something being mentioned?
3. 
Q12:
1. How much were the chronometers said to be?
2. 
3. 
Q13:
1. Were the chronometers mentioned new?
2. 
3. 
Q14:
1. What sort of money was it?
2. What type of money was it?
3. 
