IN THE WILDS
XI THE VAMPIRES
XII A FALSE FRIEND
XIII FORWARD AGAIN
XIV A NEW GUIDE
XV IN THE COILS
XVI A MEETING IN THE JUNGLE
XVII THE LOST MAP
XVIII "EL TIGRE!"
XIX POISONED ARROWS
XX AN OLD LEGEND
XXI THE CAVERN
XXII THE STORM
XXIII ENTOMBED ALIVE
XXIV THE REVOLVING STONE
XXV THE IDOL OF GOLD

TOM SWIFT IN THE LAND OF WONDERS

CHAPTER I

A WONDERFUL STORY

Tom Swift, who had been slowly looking through the pages of a magazine,
in the contents of which he seemed to be deeply interested, turned the
final folio, ruffled the sheets back again to look at a certain map and
drawing, and then, slapping the book down on a table before him, with a
noise not unlike that of a shot, exclaimed:

"Well, that is certainly one wonderful story!"

"What's it about, Tom?" asked his chum, Ned Newton. "Something about
inside baseball, or a new submarine that can be converted into an
airship on short notice?"

"Neither one, you--you unscientific heathen," answered Tom, with a
laugh at Ned. "Though that isn't saying such a machine couldn't be
invented."

"I believe you--that is if you got on its trail," returned Ned, and
there was warm admiration in his voice.

"As for inside baseball, or outside, for that matter, I hardly believe
I'd be able to tell third base from the second base, it's so long since
I went to a game," proceeded Tom. "I've been too busy on that new
airship stabilizer dad gave me an idea for. I've been working too
hard, that's a fact. I need a vacation, and maybe a good baseball
game----"

He stopped and looked at the magazine he had so hastily slapped down.
Something he had read in it seemed to fascinate him.

"I wonder if it can possibly be true," he went on. "It sounds like the
wildest dream of a professional sleep-walker; and yet, when I stop to
think, it isn't much worse than some of the things we've gone through
with, Ned."

"Say, for the love of rice-pudding! will you get down to brass tacks
and strike a trial balance? What are you talking of, anyhow? Is it a
joke?"

"A joke?"

"Yes. What you just read in that magazine which seems to cause you so
much excitement."

"Well, it may be a joke; and yet the professor seems very much in
earnest about it," replied Tom. "It certainly is one wonderful story!"

"So you said before. Come on--the 'fillium' is busted. Splice it, or
else put in a new reel and on with