Chapter VII. The ColonyThe birch. - From the top of the cliff. - Through the forest. - A dam on the creek. - The driver. - Camp overnight. - The gazebo. - The bluish league. - Phann is drinking.
Laughing, Doniphan, Wilcox and Service had left the encampment Schooner seven o'clock. The sun, rising on a cloudless sky, announcing one of those rare days in October occasionally reserve the inhabitants of temperate zones in the northern hemisphere. Heat or cold were to be feared. If any obstacle would delay or stop walking, it is only due to the nature of the soil.
First, the young explorers took obliquely across the strike in order to reach the foot of the cliff. Gordon had advised them to take Phann, whose instinct could be very useful to them, and that's why the intelligent ani
