Part 1 South America Chapter 16 The News of the Lost Captain

NEXT day, the 22d of October, at eight o’clock in the morning, Thalcave gave the signal for departure. Between the 22d and 42d degrees the Argentine soil slopes eastward, and all the travelers had to do was to follow the slope right down to the sea.Glenarvan had supposed Thalcave’s refusal of a horse was that he preferred walking, as