“Good!” replied he; “I know all the eddies and currents where the Rio n***o and the sss join, and we shall succeed in recovering the body. Let us take two pirogues, two ubas, a dozen of our Indians, and make a start.”
Padre Passanha was then coming out of Yaquita’s room.
Benito went to him, and in a few words told him what they were going to do to get possession of the document. “Say nothing to my mother or my sister,” he added; “if this last hope fails it will kill them!”
“Go, my lad, go,” replied Passanha, “and may God help you in your search.”
Five minutes afterward the four boats started from the raft. After descending the Rio n***o they arrived near the bank of the sss, at the very place where Torres, mortally wounded, had disappeared beneath the waters of the stream.
Chapter 8—T
