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Chapter 16—Through the Forest Although there was no obvious cause for apprehension, it cannot be denied that it was with a certain degree of foreboding that d**k Sands first entered that dense forest, through which for the next ten days they were all to wend their toilsome way. Mrs. Weldon, on the contrary, was full of confidence and hope. A woman and a mother, she might have been expected to be conscious of anxiety at the peril to which she might be exposing herself and her child; and doubtless she would have been sensible of alarm if her mind had not been fully satisfied upon two points; first, that the portion of the pampas they were about to traverse was little infested either by natives or by dangerous beasts; and secondly, that she was under the protection of a guide so trustworthy