It is common practice to make the horses swim back to the main island. On the way back to the mainland the foal almost drowns since she is so young. Phantom runs straight for the others at Tom’s Point where all the man are in disbelief that a youngster has brought in the horse that has eluded them so many times in the past. He names the foal "Misty" since he mistakenly thinks she is mist when he first sees her. To his luck the straggler horse ends up being Phantom with her foal.
He believes they want to just be rid of him. The men at the round up poke fun at Paul and upset him when he is sent off for a straggler horse.
The day of the roundup, and on the Island, Paul finds himself under the charge of Wyle Maddox, the leader of the round up. Before that can happen he is told he will have to help build the corrals to house the horses in. When the round-up comes around the following year, Paul goes to ride with them and help to catch the wild ponies to be sold at the market. They live with their grandparents because their parents are missionaries in China. The following months they do odd jobs and work for their grandparents to make money. They both decide to save up money to buy her for themselves so they won’t have to sell her. Paul vows to catch her the next year since he is old enough to attend the round up. In the mid 1900s Paul and Maureen, who are brother and sister, spy the fabled Phantom, a horse that has eluded the pony round up several years in a row. Humans eventually make their homes on the sister island across the channel. The horses survive the shipwreck and thrive on the island and live through the decades eventually becoming feral horses with shaggy coats. The ship is carrying horses as cargo from Peru to be sold at the market in the new world. Off the coast of Virginia in the 1300s a Spanish Galleon is shipwrecked on an island called Assategue Island.
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