Then they dwelt a moment on the shipwreck which had ended the "Pilgrim's" voyage.

The traitor Harris appeared then, and this province of South America gradually became transformed.

Bolivia changed to the terrible Angola, with its feverish climate, its savage deer, its natives still more cruel.

Could the little party escape during its return to the coast?
This river which he was seeking, which he hoped to find, would it conduct them to the shore with more safety, and with less fatigue?
He would not doubt it, for he knew well that a march of a hundred miles through this inhospitable country, in the midst of incessant dangers, was no longer possible.
"Happily," he said to himself, "Mrs.Weldon and all are ignorant of the danger of the situation.

Old Tom and I, we alone are to know that Negoro has thrown us on the coast of Africa; and that Harris has led me into the wilds of Angola." Dick Sand was thus sunk in overpowering thoughts, when he felt a breath on his forehead.