Go to the homepage, pick your topic and scroll down.
You should be able to see multiple options or questions available for you to answer. It should say (Answer) on it. Click on it and start your answer!
More questions you answer, the more points you receive.
In this selection, the sentence seems to be using "the wind was our friend on the way back, though." as an indication that the wind might most likely not nearly as bad as it was when they started to go for a skate. Short explanation: It wasn't as bad as when they first started.
“The . . . man told him of great sums of money buried by Kidd the pirate, under the oak trees on the high ridge, not far from the morass. All these were under his command, and protected by his power, so that none could find them but such as propitiated his favor.”
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