“You are right, there!”
On through the snow for hours the two men followed the tracks.
All that day and the next they followed it. Happily they had taken the precaution to bring eatables.
A few hours’ sleep in the snow was all the rest they got, but they were consoled with the cheerful fact that every moment the trail grew fresher.
And now, from the horizon line, there had arisen vast heights of snowy white. Towering yet above them all was a mighty peak, which sent forth flame and smoke.
“A volcano!” declared Captain Hardy. “I’ll wager we will find the settlement of the barbarians not far from that.”
“I think you may be very sure of it,” declared Jack Wallis.
But as they drew nearer the coast line suddenly some startling incidents occurred.
Jack, who was in advance, suddenly halted.
A cry of alarm pealed from his lips.