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Updated: May 8, 2025
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.
But Jack did not feel like saying anything to Fret about it, as long as he showed no inclination to mention the subject. Knowing that it might be several months before he could return to his home and being short of money, Jack at once began to look about for an opportunity to earn a living. Unable to find anything to do in Valparaiso, he walked to Tocopilla, though Fret declined to accompany him.
You will never come back." But Jack was determined, and nothing that the other could tell him of the perils he was sure to encounter could deter him from his purpose. An hour later he turned his back on Tocopilla. He was passing one of the outer gates, near the edge of the city, when he was stopped by one of the many beggars which invest the town.
"Where is the Narcissus, by the way?" "Loading nitrate at Tocopilla and Antofagasta, Chile. This is her last voyage under the old charter." "Got any new business in sight for her?" "I won't have the slightest difficulty getting another nitrate charter and at a rate double what she's been getting."
Seeing no prospect of advance in his position, Jack was beginning to think of seeking his fortune elsewhere, when his whole future life was changed into a different groove by the appearance of a stranger at the place where he was working. The newcomer was a Peruvian, who had been an engineer on a railroad running through the southern part of Peru, but had left to come to Tocopilla.
In this town he found work as a machinist at the princely income of four Spanish dollars a week. But this was better than nothing and he went to work with a hearty good will. He worked in Tocopilla steadily for a month. During the time he heard nothing from home or from Fret Offut.
I think I will toss up a cent to see what I shall do next. No! come to think of it, I haven't got the cent to do that!" His first thought was to return to the machine shop in Tocopilla, but as De la Pama was nearer he decided to go there in the morning. "It is useless for me to remain here," he reasoned, "I wonder how many of the Peruvians have escaped?
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