"This portion of it does."
"Then we must go as nearly east as we can, and let's be off."
Turning their backs upon the sun, they began retracing their steps; but they had journeyed scarce half an hour when they found themselves near a range of hills, which they were sure they had not passed through, and did not remember to have seen.
"What does this mean?" asked Howard, still more alarmed. "We never have been near these."
"Are they not the hills we noticed just us we were about starting?"
"They cannot be;—these are larger, have not half as much wood upon them. I tell you, Elwood, there is one thing sure."
"I know what you mean."
"What is it?"
"We are lost!"