None to help them?
Bomba started as though from an electric shock.
He sprang to one of the portholes and sent out a loud, long, undulating cry that rang weirdly through the jungle.
Again and again he repeated the cry with all the power of his lungs.
It was the call that he had used many times to summon his jungle friends to his side, and they had always come!
Would they come now?
Would they face fire?
CHAPTER XXV
IN THE NICK OF TIME
The jungle beasts came in swarms!
In the distance could be heard something like the soughing of a great wind. It grew in volume until it swelled into a roar. Then the jungle about the hut was alive with monkeys, scores of them, hundreds of them, with every passing moment increasing their numbers.