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           ThiswouldalsoallowNegoro’saccomplicestofollowanassuredtrack.Theonlythingtheycoulddowastocrossariver,withoutleavinganytraces,and,lateron,todescenditscourse.Atthesametime,therewaslesstofearfromanattackbyanimals,whichbyahappychancehadsofarkeptatagooddistance.Eventheanimosityofthenatives,underthesecircumstances,seemedlessimportant.Onceembarkedonasolidraft,DickSandandhiscompanions,beingwellarmed,wouldbeinthebestconditiontodefendthemselves.Thewholethingwastofindtheriver.

           Itmustbeaddedthat,giventheactualstateofMrs.WeldonandherlittleJack,thismodeoftravelingwouldbethemostsuitable.Armswouldnotfailtocarrythesickchild.LackingHarris’shorse,theycouldevenmakealitterofbranches,onwhichMrs.Weldoncouldbeborne.Butthiswouldrequiretwomenoutoffive,andDickSandwished,withgoodreason,thatallhiscompanionsmightbefreeintheirmovementsincaseofasuddenattack.

           Andthen,indescendingthecurrentofariver,theyoungnovicewouldfindhimselfinhiselement!

           Thequestionnowwas,whetheranavigablestreamofwaterexistedintheneighborhood.DickSandthoughtitprobable,andforthisreason:TheriverwhichemptiedintotheAtlanticattheplacewherethe"Pilgrim"hadstrandedcouldnotascendmuchtothenorth,normuchtotheeast,oftheprovince,becauseachainofmountainsquiteclosetothemthosewhichtheyhadmistakenfortheCordillerasshutinthehorizononthesetwosides.

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