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Updated: June 26, 2025
It would be tedious to follow him in his long, lonely journeys to Cobija, on the coast of Bolivia, where he stored his nitrate until he had there enough for a ship's cargo. During the time his cattle lived by feeding on the grass that grew on the more fertile places along the route, while he lived on whatever food he could pick up, sleeping at night under his cart.
Captain Hillgrove ran into Cobija the next morning, when the loading of the nitrates was begun with as little delay as possible, Jack feeling in the best of spirits as he superintended the work. But on the eve of the third day, Jack having got the last of the cargo aboard a little after noon, to his anxiety, Plum Plucky had not appeared.
Inspired by examples such as these, the Chilian navy maintained its traditions to the full, and although the Peruvian sailors fought gallantly enough, they could make no headway against their opponents. On shore the fortune of war was similar, and the highly disciplined Chilian army, advancing to the north, occupied Antofagásta, Cobija, and Tocopilla.
M. d'Orbigny found at Cobija a bed of clay, lying above a mass of upraised recent shells, which was saturated with sulphate of soda, and included thin layers of fibrous gypsum. The plain or basin, on the borders of which the famous bed of nitrate of soda lies, is situated at the distance of about thirty miles from the sea, being separated from it by the saliferous district just described.
"You need not wait any longer than sunset," said Jack, who could not blame the other for his impatience. Losing no more time, Jack mounted a fleet pony that he had hired at an exorbitant price, and set out for De la Pama at a furious pace. Toward noon he was gladdened by the sight of an inhabitant of the town whom he knew, and who was on his way to Cobija.
A cobija was strapped behind either saddle, both of which were furnished with holsters and bags. "You won't find many hotels on the road. And you will want a sword, Mr. Fortescue. Do me the favor to accept this as a souvenir of our friendship. It is a fine Toledo blade, with a history. An ancestor of mine wore it at the battle of Lepanto.
"So I will run down to Cobija as soon as possible, and if your nitrates is on board by that time the old <i>Elizabeth</i> will be good-natured." Plum having decided to go home with Jack, it was necessary for him to return to De la Pama for his money. "I will be back sure, Jack, on the third, if not before," were his parting words.
Without further trouble or delay the couple made the trip to the waiting vessel, when Jack was greeted by the bluff old skipper: "Bless my eyes! but I had given you up to old Davy Jones." "And I thought you had left me in the lurch," said Jack frankly, as he cringed under the grip given his hand by the other. "I did not dare stay in Cobija longer, my hearty.
After a while, Angela, who felt tired, went below, and I with her, but only to fetch my cobija and a pillow, for, as I told Kidd, I intended to remain on deck all night, the cabin being too close and stuffy for two persons. This was true, yet not the whole truth.
It is true that the port of Cobija is nearer Lipes and Potosi; but being situated in a barren and desert country, where nothing can be procured for the subsistence of man or beast, the merchants chuse rather to go to Arica, though more distant, as they are sure to find at that place every thing they need.
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