They managed to fall in with
some friendly blacks, who treated them well. The airship was useless
without gasolene, and it was abandoned.
Andy and the German inventor were planning to walk to some white
settlement, when the tribe they were with was attacked by the red
dwarfs and vanquished. Andy and his friend were taken prisoners, and
carried to the very village where the missionaries were, just before
the latter's rescue.
Then came the fight, and the saving of Andy and the German, almost
at the last minute.
"Well, you certainly had nearly as many adventures as we did," said
Tom. "But I guess they're over now."
But they were not. For several days the airship sailed on over the
jungles without making a descent. Mr. and Mrs. Illingway wished to
be landed at a white settlement where they had other missionary
friends. Tom would go with them. This was done, and Tom and the
others spent some time in this place, receiving so many kinds of
thanks that they had to protest.
Andy and Herr Landbacher asked to be taken back to the coast, where
they could get a steamer to America. Andy was a very different lad
now, and not the bully of old.
"Well, hadn't we better be thinking of getting back home?" asked Tom
one day.
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