. Dick Boldhero : or, A tale of adventures in South America . lace engrossedmy thoughts, and that, immediately after myarrival, I began to devote my attention to delivered the letters of introduction I hadbrought, and pursued my inquiries, in rela-tion to my uncle, in the channels which hadbeen pointed out. To my great mortification,I soon found that he was not in Valparaiso. The only clew I could obtain whichseemed to oflfer the least chance of his dis-covery, was, that a man bearing the Span-ish name of Signor Morales had come tothis city some fifteen years before. Heengaged in commerce
. Dick Boldhero : or, A tale of adventures in South America . lace engrossedmy thoughts, and that, immediately after myarrival, I began to devote my attention to delivered the letters of introduction I hadbrought, and pursued my inquiries, in rela-tion to my uncle, in the channels which hadbeen pointed out. To my great mortification,I soon found that he was not in Valparaiso. The only clew I could obtain whichseemed to oflfer the least chance of his dis-covery, was, that a man bearing the Span-ish name of Signor Morales had come tothis city some fifteen years before. Heengaged in commerce, and, being a man ofenterprise, was very successful, and speedilyamassed a large estate. Suddenly, andwithout any known cause, he became poor,closed his business, and lived a life of seclu-sion. At last he disappeared, and no oneseemed to know with certainty whither hehad gone. I found various rumors respecting person said he had gone to the neigh- DICK EOLDHERO. 137 boring island of Juan Fernandez, and nowlived there alone as Alexander Selkirk had. Alexander Selkirk. done before him. I was told by anotherthat he had become a friar, and lived as ahermit near the foot of one of the snow-cap-ped mountains of the Andes. Another storywas, that the mysterious merchant had gone12 138 DICK BOLDHERO. to Potosi, where he had purchased a silvermine and become immensely rich. Amid these various rumors, one thing onlyseemed to be clear, — and this was, that theindividual to whom they related was infact my uncle. The description of his per-son, manners, and appearance, was thing else, however, was uncertain. Itseemed probable, indeed, that he had him-self set afloat the contradictory rumors asto his residence, with a view of concealinghis real abode. I remained several months at Valparaiso,following out every suggestion that seemedto offer a clew to the object of my last there appeared some reason to sup-pose that the story of my uncles being atPotosi was no
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