This became imperative now because, the relief and supply station on
the Chusco river having been destroyed, the Cibola must add enough
ballast and gasoline to make its exploring tour in the mountains in
one journey. The original plan had been to make quick dashes to
the camp on the Chusco for gasoline and then return to the
mountains. To provide for this new weight the two new passengers
and a good portion of the air ship's stores must be landed. And the
most feasible plan seemed to be to set up a new emergency camp in
the heart of the mountains.
Many things might happen to the now perfectly working balloon. And,
even if cast away in the mountains, it was no part of Ned and Alan's
plan to cease searching for the temple of treasure until dire
necessity drove them from it. In case wreck and privation came it
would be comforting to know that somewhere in the same wilderness
food and friends awaited them.
The first glow of the sun painted for the ever watchful pilot a
picture beyond the possibilities of brush and canvas. Here and
there out of the blackness below sprang rosy points, the sun-tinted
peaks of the Tunit Chas.
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