Then: "Mrs.Weldon," said he, "the important thing is to know, first, where we are.

I believe that our ship can only have made the land on that portion of the American sea-coast which forms the Peruvian shore.

The winds and currents must have carried her as far as that latitude.

But are we here in some southern province of Peru, that is to say on the least inhabited part which borders upon the pampas?
Maybe so.

I would even willingly believe it, seeing this beach so desolate, and, it must be, but little frequented.