The Flying Machine Boys in the Wilds
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Frank Walton. The Flying Machine Boys in the Wilds
CHAPTER I. UNDER THE EQUATOR
CHAPTER II. WHAT THE FISHERMEN CAUGHT
CHAPTER III. A MASTERLY RETREAT
CHAPTER IV. PLANNING A MIDNIGHT RIDE
CHAPTER V. A WAIF AND A STRAY
CHAPTER VI. AUTOMOBILE VS. AEROPLANE
CHAPTER VII. A PAIR OF PLANS
CHAPTER VIII. A SPRING FOR LIBERTY
CHAPTER IX. A FINE CURTAIN-RAISER
CHAPTER X. WHERE THE TROUBLE BEGAN
CHAPTER XI. UNDER TROPICAL STARS
CHAPTER XII. THE HAUNTED TEMPLE
CHAPTER XIII. THE CLOSING OF A DOOR
CHAPTER XIV. THE INDIANS HELP SOME!
CHAPTER XV. A QUESTION OF MARKSMANSHIP
CHAPTER XVI. BESIEGED IN THE TEMPLE
CHAPTER XVII. THE LOST TELEGRAMS
CHAPTER XVIII. JIMMIE’S AWFUL HUNGER
CHAPTER XIX. WHERE THE PASSAGE ENDED
CHAPTER XX. THE SAVAGES MAKE MORE TROUBLE
CHAPTER XXI. THE MYSTERY OF THE ANDES
CHAPTER XXII. TWO RUNAWAY BOYS!
CHAPTER XXIII. TWO RUNAWAY AVIATORS!
CHAPTER XXIV. THE END OF THE MYSTERY
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Seated with his back to the thicket, Jimmie heard a rustle and turned about expecting to see one of his chums.
Instead, he saw the ugly, vicious face of an Ecuadorian savage. While he looked, the fellow was joined by another, equally repulsive and equally naked. During that first moment of amazement Jimmie dropped his fish pole and it went bobbing down the river.
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Hearing the cries of their chums, Ben and Glenn sprang for their guns and, walking swiftly toward the river, began firing, both for the purpose of directing the boys toward the camp and with the added purpose of frightening away any hostile element, either human or animal, walking on four legs or on two. Panting, and scarcely believing in their own good fortune, Jimmie and Carl presently came to where their chums stood not far from the machines. Both boys dropped down in the long grass the instant they felt themselves under the protection of the automatics in the hands of their friends.
To say that Glenn and Ben were surprised at the sudden appearance of their chums only feebly expresses the situation. The savages had not followed the boys into the open plaza where the grass grew, and so there was no physical explanation of the incident.
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