It will be less work than we had in ascending it." "I suppose," she replied, "that there are people all the way along the river until you reach the end of it." "There are; but we found most of them unfriendly long before we struck the region of the Aryks." "Are they likely to attack us ?" she asked, raising her head and looking at her lover with an alarmed expression.
"We had little difficulty, so long as we kept in the middle of the stream, and one discharge from our guns was generally enough to drive them away." "And for how far does this prevail ?" "Two or three days ought to take us out of the danger.

Then it will be plain sailing all the rest of the way.

The river is long, but, dearest, we shall be with each other, and it will seem brief." She parted her lips to make a suitable reply, when a startled expression came upon her lovely countenance and she whispered: "They must have followed us through the woods." "What do you mean ?" he asked, grasping his rifle.
"I hear some one moving behind us." "It is a wild animal----" He checked himself, for, to his unspeakable amazement, Professor Grimcke at that instant stepped to view.
The two men caught sight of each other at the same moment.

They stared as if in doubt, and then, with exclamations of delight, clasped hands.
By great good fortune, the lovers had emerged from the forest within a stone's throw of the point where Grimcke, Long, Bippo, and Pedros were waiting with the canoe hidden among the trees.
After this reunion they set out for home.
A few days carried them beyond danger, and in good time the Amazon was reached.

Bippo and Pedros were left at Marcapa, at which port the explorers secured passage for home, where they arrived in safety.