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Updated: June 7, 2025
During his short sojourn on board the Covadonga Jim had formed a rather intimate acquaintanceship with her first lieutenant, a man named Jorge Montt; and one evening, after he had returned from one of his periodical surveys of the town, Jim entered the tiny mess-room to find Montt discoursing at length to an eager circle of listeners upon the legends and traditions of old Peru.
Then the scene changed again, and Jim beheld the representation of a broad plaza in some city which he had never visited but which some sixth sense told him was Santiago de Chili. Montt, now supreme head of the Chilian navy, was just issuing from a building fronting on the square. It was night-time, and the man was clothed in a heavy black cloak which he had flung round his shoulders.
Montt finished his remarks to the accompaniment of a chorus of derisive laughter, and a number of voices were raised in protest against his attempted imposition upon their credulity.
Looking in the direction indicated by Montt, Jim could plainly see the dull, lurid glare of a large fire away to the south-east; and, outlined sharply against the glow, he could also make out, even from the level of the deck, a brig-rigged steamer, which could be none other than the Peruvian monitor; and she was accompanied by a large, three-masted, ship-rigged steamer which was undoubtedly the corvette Union.
You are a brave man; and I would that I might have shown you a more pleasant ending to your life; but fate is fate, and there is no changing it. Adios, senores, adios; I do not think we shall ever meet again. You, Senor Englishman, go forward to honour and fame; while you, Don Jorge Montt, go forward to honour and death!
Jim listened intently for a few seconds, then replied: "Yes, I think I do hear something prowling about in there, but upon my word, Montt, it sounds more like a a well, an animal than a human being; and what a very curious smell there is; quite like let me see " here the young officer sniffed several times "yes," he continued after a pause, "it is quite like the odour of a wild beast!"
This work, if properly carried out, in conjunction with the activities associated with the assemblies of Santiago, Valparaìso and Viná del Mar, and the groups of Puerto Montt, Valdivia, Quilpue, Temuco, Sewell, Chorrillos, Mülchen and other smaller ones, as well as several isolated localities in that republic, may well hasten the advent of the day when the Chilean followers of the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh will have established the first independent national spiritual assembly to be formed by any single nation of Latin America.
"Who knocks at my door? Go away, whoever you are. I am a poor, lone old woman, and if you dis " "Are you the Inca woman, Mama Huello?" broke in Montt; "for, if so, we wish to consult you. We are two naval officers who have heard of your wonderful powers of foretelling the future, and we should like to have a demonstration of them."
"Hallo, Montt!" Jim ejaculated, "what's the matter this time?" "Two steamers have just been sighted coming out of Chaneral Bay, and heading this way," returned the Chilian, breathlessly.
It was only a disordered fancy, of course; but to him it certainly seemed as though the voice proceeded from an animal, rather than from a human being. Then Montt remarked: "She must surely have a big dog, or some other pet animal with her, I should think, for I distinctly heard the `pad-pad' of paws when the Mama turned away.
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