The Quest

At last the fishing net lay in the bottom of the boat. Lek stepped forward and opened the net. He picked up the blue and white thing. It was a plate. Lek started to laugh. 'We've caught a plate -- an old plate! Shall I throw it back into the sea?' he asked Daeng.'No, no, wait a minute!' said Daeng. 'Give it to me.' He looked at the plate carefully. 'I saw a picture of a plate like this in the newspaper,' he said. 'The plate was very old. It was worth a lot of money.'

A Note About This Story 4
The Place in This Story 6
The People in This Story
1 Daeng Finds the Plate 8
2 On Board The Quest 13
3 A Sudden Death 19
4 Lek is in Danger 22
5 Lek Finds a Safe Place 25
6 The Search for the Swatow Wreck 29
7 Treasure 35
8 The Collector 39
9 The Quest in Trouble 43
10 Through the Monsoon 49
11 The Collector Again 54
Point for Understanding 61