From time to time they came upon the traces of animals of a large size who had come to quench their thirst at the stream, but none were actually seen, and it was evidently not in this part of the forest that the peccary had received the bullet which had cost Pencroft a grinder.
De vez en cuando se veían huellas de grandes animales, que sin duda iban habitualmente a beber en aquel arroyo; pero no se veía más y sin duda no era tampoco en aquella parte del Far–West donde el saíno había recibido el perdigón que había costado una muela a Pencroff.