Gustavo had much more valuable cargo. He had been saving things from those who had died and from the bodies the expeditionaries had found, and he had a bag with him where the most important belongings of the twenty-nine people who had departed this world were stored together. He had promised to bring home to fathers, mothers, and girlfriends those small memories, and he protectively guarded that collection of crosses, chains, rings, small medals, photographs, letters, documents, and watches.
