Her speed must even have been very considerable during the tempest.

Dick Sand estimated its average at not less than two hundred miles a day! How, then, had he not yet made the coast?
Did it flee before the "Pilgrim ?" It was absolutely inexplicable.
And, nevertheless, no land was signaled, though one of the blacks kept watch constantly in the crossbars.
Dick Sand often ascended there himself.

There, with a telescope to his eyes, he sought to discover some appearance of mountains.

The Andes chain is very high.

It was there in the zone of the clouds that he must seek some peak, emerging from the vapors of the horizon.
Several times Tom and his companions were deceived by false indications of land.