As for Torres he looked after them as they got further and further
away, and when he had lost sight of them--
"Ah! he is about to recross the frontier!" said he, with a deep
voice. "Let him recross it! and he will be still more at my mercy!
Pleasant journey to you, Joam Garral!"
And having uttered these words the captain of the woods, making for
the south so as to regain the left bank of the river by the shortest
road, disappeared into the dense forest.
CHAPTER III
THE GARRAL FAMILY
THE VILLAGE of Iquitos is situated on the left bank of the Amazon,
near the seventy-fourth meridian, on that portion of the great river
which still bears the name of the Mar?non, and of which the bed
separates Peru from the republic of Ecuador. It is about fifty-five
leagues to the west of the Brazilian frontier.
Iquitos, like every other collection of huts, hamlet, or village met
with in the basin of the Upper Amazon, was founded by the
missionaries. Up to the seventeenth year of the century the Iquito
Indians, who then formed the entire population, were settled in the
interior of the province at some distance from the river.
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