One Hundred Years of Solitude

general war. Another of his
expectations was lost for
three months in the jungle in
a mad attempt to cross more
than a thousand miles of
virgin territory in order to
proclaim war on the outskirts
of the capital. On one
occasion he was lea than
fifteen miles away from
Macondo and was obliged by
government patrols to hide in
the mountains, very close to
the enchanted region where