“You assert, Hunt, that all you have told us concerning Arthur Pym is true?”
“Yes.”
“You knew Dirk Peters?”
“Yes.”
“You lived some years with him in Illinois?”
“Nine years.”
“And he often related these things to you?”
“Yes.”
“And, for your own part, you have no doubt that he told you the exact truth?”
“None.”
“Well, then, did it never occur to him that some of the crew of the Jane might have remained on Tsalal Island?”
“No.”
“He believed that William Guy and his companions must all have perished in the landslip of the hill of Klock-Klock?”
“Yes, and from what he often repeated to me, Pym believed it also.”
“Where did you see Dirk Peters for the last time?”
“At Vandalia.”
“How long ago?”
“Over two years.”
“And which of you two was the first to leave Vandalia?”
I thought I
