Why not try to get a boat, and land somewhere on the coast of Spain ?" "I have been thinking of that, Dick; but it seemed to me, before, altogether too difficult.

Still, if we can get help from outside, I don't know why we should not be able to manage it.

We should have to go some distance along the Spanish coast, for there are sure to be French garrisons at Bilbao and Santander; but beyond that I should think we might land at any little village.

Galicia must certainly have been evacuated by the French, for we know that Ney's corps were down in the Tagus valley; and I should think that they cannot have any great force in the Asturias.

The worst of it is, we have not got enough money to buy a boat; and if we had, the soldiers could hardly bargain with a fisherman for one.