BOB THE VAGABOND 



Something south of the Amazon kept calling to him. 



links and brought them on their way in the fall of the 

 year. So the same impulse quickened Bob's heart that 

 had stirred all his fathers, back through countless sea- 

 sons. The same quiver for flight came to all the Band of 

 Vagabonds. Was it homesickness? We do not know. 



We only know that a night came when Bob and his 

 companions left the mountains of Jamaica below them 

 and then behind them. Far, far behind them lay the 

 island, and far, far ahead the coast they sought. Five 

 hundred miles between Jamaica and a chance for rest or 

 food. Five hundred miles; and the night lay about and 



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