2000 Lieues à travers l'Amérique du Sud
2000 Lieues à travers l'Amérique du Sud is a novel by the French writer Louis Boussenard (1847-1910) from 1884. Together with De Paris au Brésil par Terre and Aventures d'un Héritier à travers le Monde , the novel was published as a complete edition Published under Aventures d'un Héritier à travers le Monde (1884). Set in South America in 1879, it describes the adventures of two French people traveling overland to Brazil.
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The American Colonel Buttler wants to smuggle weapons on Captain Bob's ship from Panama to Peru, which is at war with Chile against Bolivia and therefore needs weapons. After 600 km the Goëlette capsized because of an oncoming ship. When Buttler recognizes his two enemies, Julien de Clénay and Jacques Arnaud, on this one, he and the captain decide to lock them up in a leprosy in order to kill them afterwards.
The two are two Parisian adventurers who want to travel overland from France to Brazil. They escape from the leprosy through a crack in the wall and go to a village, where they are told that Bob and Buttler have set out south. So the two set out to follow them across Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. In Ecuador, Jacques and Julien get their mail at the French consulate, including a letter from their friend Perrot and his brothers, telling him that they are working for the Russian M. Alexis and that they want to spend the winter in Brazil on a future Jacques estate . In Peru, Jacques and Julien are invited by a man who is actually the chief of police. He arrests her and her leader Esteban because he thinks they are the Americans Buttler and Bob who are wanted for treason. The Americans passed themselves off as Julien and Jaques eight days before with the help of the Jacques inheritance letter in order to preserve the Jacques inheritance.
So the French are in prison again. You are found guilty of espionage but are given the right to write a letter to the French minister. Esteban is released and goes to Lima to meet the French minister, but accidentally runs into the English consulate, where he hands the letter to the minister. He decides to rush to help the French. The English soldiers blow up the prison gate, free the French and take the Peruvians prisoner. The two Frenchmen and Esteban continue their journey to Brazil on horseback. They arrive at the estate 13 days earlier than planned, where a servant explains to them that the estate's heir presented himself with the will three weeks ago. He leads you to this. Jacques is about to kill Buttler when Christovao, the person in charge of Jacques' uncle's will, shows up. Jacques and Buttler pretend to be the nephew, but Christovao uses a trick to track down the real Jacques. Buttler and Bob are preparing to attack when multiple explosions suddenly occur, injuring both of them.
Perrot, his two brothers and M. Alexis appear. They had found out about Bob and Buttler's plans and were hiding in the woods near the house. Jacques receives his inheritance and moves into the house with Julien. After a while, the adventurers return to Paris, where they have a big party with all the friends they made on their trip.
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Louis Boussenard: 2000 Lieues à travers l'Amérique du Sud. Paris: E. Dentu, 1885.