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remember reading this book.
The fear was from a few things. At one point he is alone in the bush on the island and he finds a skull. The skull is worn and old looking. He thinks about the potential forghosts even though he remembers his father saying ghosts are rubbish, so he tries to think the same with great difficulty.
Also, there is a bad rash going thru the boys and he is sure it has to do with a curse. His greatest fear is that the bad luck will hit him and a rash may be only the start of it.
When he returns to the camp he tells the boys about the skull but nobody wants to go confirm it. He is looked at strange be one of the other boys and is afraid he will be accused of lying. And lying, for reasons even he doesn't understand, is scarier than a skull or a curse. At the end of Chapter 5 the skull is missing from the place he lsat saw it and he knows he did not move it himself.
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