1. California
2. gold rush
3. supply (how much of something is available)
4. demand (how badly people want something)
5. mining (mine + ing, drop the "e" = mining)
6. important
7. treasure
8. searching
9. sailing
10. butler (Praiseworthy's job)
11. gold-seeker
12. weather
13. Captain Swain
14. Praiseworthy
15. anchor
16. San Francisco
17. coal bunkers
18. voyage (a journey or an adventure... in this story, it's on a ship)
19. assure (find out what this means, it's in our book)
20. saloon (a social, gathering place)
21. gentlemen
22. soldiers
23. honest
24. thief (what is is another word for thief that is used in the story?)
25. passengers
26. examine (to look at closely & carefully)
27. imposter (find out what this means if you don't remember)
28. deposit
29. trumpet (who wears an alarm trumpet around their neck in the story & why?)
30. machines
31. certainly
32. square-rigger (a type of ship, consider looking it up for a picture)
33. emptiness
34. loneliness
35. escape (who made an escape in this story & how?)
36. mountain
37. splinters (how can a ship be splintered in this story?)
38. passengers
39. doomed (what does this mean? think about chapter 5...)
40. straightening
41. trousers (pants!)
42. harbor (this is where boats go to do what?)
43. dazzling (can you use this in a sentence?)
44. homesick
45. genuine (this means real)
46. business
47. umbrella
48. horrified (can you use this in a sentence?)
49. trumpeting
50. Rio de Janeiro (can you locate this on a map? why is it on our list?)
