“How do you know that?” demanded Ned.
Gastong’s replies to the question were not satisfactory, and so Ned gave over questioning him. The sleeping boys were aroused and in ten minutes, just as a faint tint of day came into the east, they were away to the jungle—taking the way to Gatun at first, as the thicket they sought was far to the southeast of that city.
CHAPTER XIV.
THE KILL IN THE JUNGLE.
It was growing darker every minute in the jungle, for there were now fleecy clouds in the sky, and the moon was not always in sight. Following Jimmie’s statement that they were lost, the boys stood stock still in a dense thicket and tried once more to get their bearings.
“We’ve got something figured out wrong,” Peter said.
“I don’t see how we have,” Jimmie insisted. “See here! That is the moon up there? What?”
“Looks like it.”