CHAPTER XXI

SWALLOWS IN THE DARK With Mate Susan at the oars, Roger on the look-out in the bows, and Captain John at the tiller, the _Swallow_ moved up the Amazon River in the rapidly gathering dusk. There were walls of reeds on each side, then a bit of meadowland where they could see the shapes of trees against the darkening sky, then reeds again, shutting them in as if they were in a lane between high walls. Suddenly the river broadened into a wide, open pool, with tall reeds all round it, except where the river entered and …