Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon by Jules Verne
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"But they are Benito Garral and Manoel Valdez." "I know. They told me their names, but I never expected to see them here." Torres advanced toward the two young men, who looked at him without recognizing him. "You do not remember me, gentlemen?" he asked. "Wait a little," answered Benito; "Mr. Torres, if I remember aright; it was you who, in the forest of Iquitos, got into difficulties with a guariba?" "Quite true, gentlemen," replied Torres. "For six weeks I have been traveling down the Amazon, and I have just crossed the frontier at the same time as you have." "Very pleased to see you again," said Benito; "but you have not forgotten that you promised to come to the fazenda to my father?" "I have not forgotten it," answered Torres. "And you would have done better to have accepted my offer; it would have allowed you to have waited for our departure, rested from you fatigues, and descended with us to the frontier; so many days of walking saved." "To be sure!" answered Torres. |
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