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 temps en temps, on relevait quelques traces laissées par des animaux de grande taille, qui venaient habituellement se désaltérer à ce ruisseau, mais rien de plus, et ce n'était pas encore dans cette partie du Far-West que le pécari avait reçu le grain de plomb qui coûtait une mâchelière à Pencroff.