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the school holidays start for the four children.
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the children notice that their mother is acting rather suspicious
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the children ask their mother what is going on and she says she is planing something
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the children find out that their mother is planning a cruise for them
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a few days later the children pack their bags and leave for the cruise
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the children stay a night in the town they are getting on the boat and then the next day they get on the boat
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they are now on the boat and they are leaving the port when jacks pet parrot kiki flies of jacks friends shoulder and comes to the boat even though she is not allowed
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A boy called Lucian gets on the cruise and makes friends with the children but they do not like him much
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when jack takes kiki up on the top deck everyone likes the parrot and so she shows off her talking skills
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it is Philips birthday soon so they all go onto one of the islands and buy Philip a present and Philip finds and injured monkey and sneaks him on board
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the monkey has hurt legs and is dirty but it lets them wash it with soap and put bandages on its legs and it is chattering the entire time so they name him Mikky
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Philip manages to get the monkey into his cabin and jack lucy-ann and Dinah croud around to look but Dinah is disgusted by the dirty monkey.
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Mikky and kiki meet each other and the are become friends because kiki kept mimicking Mikkys chattering
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on Philips birthday Lucy-Ann gives Philip the ship in a bottle and he loves it
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when the children go for dinner Mikky and Kiki fight over the bottle until it falls off the shelf and breaks the bottle then Mikky gets the ship and goes under the bed
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the children find a suspicious treasure map inside the model ship.
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the map is in Greek so they get it translated by the ships crew.