“With her mother, my captain. Both were proceeding to Cadiz for Madrid.”
“With her mother! Then she is separated from her mother by the shipwreck?”
“The boat would have received the mother, but the line parted.”
“Did the people you left behind perish, think you?”
Antonio replied with a shrug.
“You have been four days on the island, I understand, and there is water in abundance?”
“There is good water among those trees,” said the Spaniard, pointing.
“And what food have you met with?”
He succeeded, with much difficulty, in making us understand that they had lived upon terrapin, crabs, and iguanas.
“Did you get fire for dressing your food?”