One Hundred Years of Solitude

after several months of lost
wandering through the
swamps, far away now from
the last Indians they had met
on their way, they camped on
the banks of a stony river
whose waters were like a
torrent of frozen glass. Years
later, during the second civil
war, Colonel Aureliano
Buendía tried to follow that
same route in order to take
Riohacha by surprise and
after six days of traveling he