I dare not tell you that there is any chance of your ever again seeing your country or your homes." He paused.

The Spaniards evidently had no conception of his meaning.
Negrete begged him to tell them all again.

He repeated all that he had said, and by introducing some illustrations from familiar things, he succeeded to a certain extent in conveying some faint idea of the convulsion that had happened.

The event was precisely what he had foretold.

The communication was received by all alike with the most supreme indifference.
Hakkabut did not say a word.