At last came the day for the young explorers to leave St. Vincent. Anxious to learn what had become of Hockley, who had not answered a letter sent to Trinidad by him, Professor Strong engaged passage on a vessel bound for Port-of-Spain.
“Hurrah, we are off at last!” cried Darry, as they set sail. “Good-bye to the West Indies.”
“After all, the trip through the islands wasn’t so bad,” said Sam. “We saw lots of interesting things.”
“I guess we shall see even more interesting things in the future,” came from Mark.
“Of course, our sight-seeing isn’t half over yet,” added Frank. He was right, and what the immediate future held in store for our young friends will be told in the next volume of this “Pan-American Series.” In that book we shall meet all our boys and the professor once more, and learn of many things as interesting, curious, or exciting as those related in these pages.
But for the present we will leave them, and also these ill-fated islands of the Lesser Antilles, the fate of which even to-day seems uncertain. Our friends made a happy group as they steamed rapidly southward, and here let us say good-bye.
THE END
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized.