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   In Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," Jim and Huck were looking for the town of Cairo. Cairo is the southernmost town in Illinois and it sits at the junction of the Missippi and Ohio Rivers.

   Jim and Huck sail off on a raft, hoping to reach Cairo, Illinois, and take a steamship up the Ohio River and into the states that prohibit slavery. In the first paragraph of Chapter 15, Huck, the narrator, states:

   We judged that three nights more would fetch us to Cairo, at the bottom of Illinois, where the Ohio River comes in, and that was what we was after. We would sell the raft and get on a steamboat and go way up the Ohio amongst the free States, and then be out of trouble.

   
   But they miss the town and so begins their wonderful adventures.

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   Posted by epollock on Tuesday May 26, 2009 at 9:33 PM