Chapter 20 THE CAPTIVES.

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As soon as the reception had terminated, Don Pablo had offered to the Spanish envoys and to the Portuguese officer-that is to say, to Don Zeno Cabral, whom he was far from suspecting was a guest in his camp-a collation that the latter had accepted.

Although camped in one of the most inaccessible parts of the Cordilleras, the Pincheyras-