One Hundred Years of Solitude

things were going to take a
long time and he
reestablished contact with his
forgotten partners in Brussels,
thinking that it was just as
well to be a pioneer in the
Caribbean as in Africa. While
his steps were progressing he
prepared a landing field in the
old enchanted region which at
that time looked like a plain
of crushed flintstone, and he
studied the wind direction,
the geography of the coastal