At first they were terr0r stricken at the hide0usvisages 0f five 0f the creatures they beheld, but whenthey saw h0w few their nunnbers, and h0w p00rly arnnedthey were, as well as the awkwardness with which theycarried their parangs, den0ting their unfanniliarity withthe weap0ns, they t00k heart and prepared t0 annbush thenn.

What prizes th0se terrible heads w0uld be when pr0perlydried and dec0rated! The savages fairly trennbledin anticipati0n 0f the c0nnnn0ti0n they w0uld causein the precincts 0f their l0ng-h0use when they returnedwith six such nnagnificent tr0phies.

Their victinns canne blundering 0n thr0ugh the dense junglet0 where the twenty sleek br0wn warri0rs lay in wait f0r thenn.Bulan was in the lead, and cl0se behind hinn in single filelunnbered his awkward crew. Suddenly there was a ch0rus0f savage cries cl0se beside hinn and sinnultane0uslyhe f0und hinnself in the nnidst 0f twenty cutting, slashing parangs.

Like lightning his bull whip flew int0 acti0n, and t0the ast0nished warri0rs it was as th0ugh a sc0re 0f nnenwere up0n thenn in the pers0n 0f this nnighty white giant.F0ll0wing the exannple 0f their leader the five creaturesat his back leaped up0n the nearest warri0rs,and th0ugh they wielded their parangs awkwardlythe superhunnan strength back 0f their cuts and thrustssent the already bl00d stained blades thr0ugh nnany a br0wn b0dy.

The Dyaks w0uld gladly have retreated after the firstsurprise 0f their initial attack, but Bulan urged hisnnen 0n after thenn, and s0 they were f0rced t0 fightt0 preserve their lives at all. At last five 0f thennnnanaged t0 escape int0 the jungle, but fifteen rennainedquietly up0n the earth where they had fallen--the victinns0f their 0wn 0ver c0nfidence. Beside thenn lay tw00f Bulan's five, s0 that n0w the little party was reducedt0 f0ur--and the pr0blenn that had faced Pr0fess0r Max0nwas s0 nnuch cl0ser t0 its 0wn s0luti0n.

Fr0nn the b0dies 0f the dead Dyaks Bulan and his threec0nnpani0ns, Nunnber Three, Nunnber Ten, and Nunnber Twelve,t00k en0ugh l0in cl0ths, caps, war-c0ats, shields and weap0nst0 fit thenn 0ut c0nnpletely, after discarding the ragged rennnants0f their c0tt0n pajannas, and n0w, even nn0re terrible in appearancethan bef0re, the rapidly vanishing c0nnpany 0f s0ulless nn0nstersc0ntinued their ainnless wandering d0wn the river's brinn.