There is nothing changed.

I certainly have not succeeded in finding him, but we have found many prisoners in some of the little out-of-the-way forts.

Now, some of them have been captives quite as long as he has; therefore there is no reason, whatever, why he should not also be alive.

I have no thought of giving up the search as hopeless.

I mean to carry out our old plans; and certainly I am much better fitted to do so than I was when I first landed here.