Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 2 -1 2019 | Page 7

“Who are you?” She asked us. “We are a group of sailors from the Ming Dynasty. We were setting sail for
home but went in the wrong direction and entered The Dead Sea. “Oh!” She said, excitement lighting up
her eyes, “Do you have a map?”” What’s that?” We echoed, “It is a piece of paper with the whereabouts of
different places in our world!” She said,” I am a student and we are now being taught geography, the study
of different whereabouts in the world, at school now. We are required to buy an atlas at the start of the year.
How about I give it to you!” She rummaged in her backpack and took out a book. “Here, you need this
more than me!” “Thank you!” We said. We went back to our ship and investigated this map. Suddenly an
enormous whirlpool engulfed us again and brought us back to our time. Once we returned home and set
sail upon a new voyage we followed the map, and successfully found out different places in the world. We
traded a lot of different goods back to our country for example silk, and China emerged to become one of
the prosperous countries in the world.