Jungle Journey... Somewhere in Cambodia....

Crichton Odd had been on an expedition investigating ruins and such like in Brunei, on their way back to India, they stopped off in the French Protectorate of Cambodia. While there, they heard that a small party of female archaeologists had gone missing. Odd volunteered to help find them and after getting permission from the authorities he went into the jungle with his fiancee and a small detachment of Indian soldiers... 

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 After searching for a couple of days near where the missing archaeologists had been last reported he found them and led them back to safety, as they reached a small rise next to an old ruin they could just see in the distance a farmstead.

the moved down into the valley and alongside the river towards a rope bridge ....

as they started to cross the bridge a small group of natives approached; a shot from a pistol scared them off and they slipped back into the jungle....

as they got across the bridge and moved through the ruined building they were attacked by another small group of natives....

a stiff volley and a brisk hand-to-hand fight saw them off, however one of the escorting soldiers was killed. As they made their way onwards a few arrows were fired at them, but didn't hit them ....

they crossed a small stream towards a little village, which seemed deserted ...

as they passed the village, they could see a group of natives following them .....

they made good progress, occasionally they thought they caught sight of a native in the undergrowth nearby .....

when they arrived at a ruined temple, natives from a neraby village moved towards them ....

and then attacked them .....

the little party fired frantically at the charging natives with their pistols and rifles, some got close in but they fended them off ....

the natives fell back and kept away from Odd and his party as they moved away from the temple....

safety at last ! they reach the farmstead....