Word meanings and Q and Ans for Chap 4 VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY

Vocabulary Words: 

 

∂ voyage: travelling by a sea or air

∂ dawn: just before morning

∂ defend: protect

∂ accompany: go along

∂ obstacles: difficulties

∂ pursued: followed

∂ glimpse: a quick sight

∂ inedible: cannot be eaten

∂ rind: the tough outer skin of certain fruits

∂ imitate: act out

∂ furiously: angrily

∂ hurl: throw

 

Comprehension Questions:

 

1. Why did the narrator and his eldest son go on a discovery voyage?

The narrator and his eldest son went to look for traces of their ship companions and to examine the nature of the oil on the other side of the river.

 

2. Why did the narrator not take the other three children with them?

As they would be better able to defend themselves in any danger without

the children.

 

3. What did they carry with them on the journey?

They carried a bag for game, a hatchet, pistols, biscuits, a flask of fresh river water.

 

4. What did they discover after a few hours of the journey?

They discovered that the banks of the river were very steep and there was no real path on the other side.

 

5. What did Fritz’s sharp eye observe in the bushes?

His eyes observed that some of the trees were of a singular kind.

 

6. How is the bottle gourd useful?

It‘s rind can be used for making various utensils like plates, dishes, basins and

Flasks.

 

7. How did the narrator divide the bottle gourd into two?

 The narrator taught Fritz how to divide the gourd with a bit of string, which

would cut more equally than a knife. He tightly tied the string round the

middle of the gourd and striking it hard with the handle of the knife, he drew

it tighter and tighter, till it separated into two regular shaped bowls or vessels.

 

8. What did they do with the two pieces of bottle gourd?

They left them to dry in the sun, filling them with sand so that they did not

lose their shape.

 

9. What left the narrator and Fritz spellbound?

The sight of the sea gently moving by the waves in which the rays of the sun

were reflected and the woods, of various hues of greenness left them

spellbound.