Rio de Janeiro was the ship's first stop. Jack and Praiseworthy were very excited to finally reach land. "That night, when Praiseworthy and Jack returned to their ship, their arms were loaded with exotic fruits never seen at home in Boston-- bananas and pineapples and guavas." (page 47)

You might think hmmmm? Bananas and pineapples are not really exotic fruits, are they? What is exotic anyway? According to the dictionary, exotic means something is "strikingly and excitingly strange."Are bananas exotic?

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