CHAPTER XIV.
THE BEST TO DO.
So then, after a voyage long delayed by calms, then favored by winds from the northwest and from the southwest--a voyage which had not lasted less than seventy-four days--the "Pilgrim" had just run aground! However, Mrs.Weldon.and her companions thanked Providence, because they were in safety.

In fact, it was on a continent, and not on one of the fatal isles of Polynesia, that the tempest had thrown them.

Their return to their country, from any point of South America on which they should land, ought not, it seemed, to present serious difficulties.
As to the "Pilgrim," she was lost.

She was only a carcass without value, of which the surf was going to disperse the _debris_ in a few hours.

It would be impossible to save anything.