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THE CRUISE OF THE CONDORBook First Published in August 1933 - 256 pagesThis story was later published, in seven parts, as WINGS OFFORTUNE in,issues 340 to 346, dated 11 th August 1934 to 22 ndSeptember 1934Bigglesand Algy go to visit Biggles' Uncle. Biggles used to called his father 'Pa' andwhen he was a toddler called his father's brother, Dick, 'Dickpa' - and thename has stuck ever since. Biggles and Algy find Dickpa's house in a state ofsiege. Whilst exploring in Brazil, Dickpa had struck the trail of some ancienttreasure, but his villainous porters found out and turned against him. Escapingto England, they have followed him and have him trapped in his own house.Biggles escapes from the house with a plan. Returning with a rented aircraft,Dickpa and Algy are rescued from the house and together with Biggles' oldFlight Sergeant, Smyth, they all travel to South America on a treasure hunt.They have bought a plane and shipped it out with them.

Arriving at Manaos, asettlement on the Amazon River, they find trouble. Dickpa is arrested andthrown into jail by a corrupt official. Biggles gets him out, with the help ofAlgy and Smyth and they make a getaway in their amphibian aircraft, which theyhave named the ' Condor'.

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Suffering a magneto failure, Biggles is forcedto land on the river. Here, they are caught up by the current and swept towardsthe falls. Smyth manages to fix the problem in time for Biggles to fly off thefalls just as they go over. Landing, Biggles goes off to explore.

When hereturns, Indians have captured the rest of the crew of the ' Condor'.Trailing after them to their camp, Biggles uses flares to scare the Indiansaway and save his comrades. Moving to a safer place, the adventurers travel towhere Dickpa has previously found gold in a cave. Here they find that there hasbeen a rock fall and they have to spend time clearing it. On the returnjourney, they are shocked to see another plane - the villains are after themagain. Returning to the ' Condor', they find it has gone!

Guessing thatthe baddies have spotted it from the air and landed to tow it away, Bigglesrealises that it must be down river. Crossing the Amazon on a Balsa raftto where he knows there is an abandoned canoe, Biggles is able to get themtransport. Biggles, Algy, Dickpa and Smyth find the ' Condor' and stealit back. There is a scene in theChapter called “A Night of Horrors” that is not in the later Thames and Dean& Son reprints of this book. Algyfights a snake on the plane. You can seethe scene illustrated in one of the original story illustrations – at the linkbelow. This scene must have been removedbecause in the reprints they decided to modernise the aircraft, thereby makingit impossible for Algy to fight a snake ON the fuselage of the plane when theyare IN the modernised plane.

Parachuting down to ensure a safe landingarea, Biggles watches Algy land and they all make camp. Next morning they andthe ' Condor' are attacked by ants. Returning to Dickpa's cave, there isan earthquake and everybody is trapped inside. Smashing their way through a manmade wall, a path is found that eventually leads to the top of a plateau. Herethey find a vast crater and in it, an old long lost city. Here, the bodies ofthe long dead inhabitants remain and eventually a huge room filled with afabulous treasure is found.

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Taking a few portable items, they plan to return tothe ' Condor' and fly up and land on the plateau. Biggles is the first tocross a precarious bridge made out of a tree, when an earthquake strikes and heis lucky to make it to the other side before the bridge collapses. Embarking ona dangerous journey alone, Biggles is attacked by a huge bird called a KingCondor and has to survive numerous perils on the small cliff side path.

Failingto jump a gap, Biggles falls into a waterfall and is washed to the bottom ofthe cliff. Surviving this, he is then shocked to find a man in their aeroplane.The man, called Aaron Speakdetruf, has escaped from virtual slavery in a rubberplantation. He helps Biggles to take off and watches him do so - only to becruelly murdered by Blattner, one of the enemy, who has just arrived - momentstoo late to stop Biggles. Biggles lands on the plateau and the plan is to loadthe treasure and fly to Bolivia. However, at that moment the volcano where theplateau is situated, erupts and our heroes are lucky to escape with their lives.Flying away in the ' Condor' they are then attacked by the baddies plane.This plane is armed with a machine gun and Biggles has no armaments. Algy usesan oil drum as a missile and brings the enemy plane down. Flying to Bolivia,the ' Condor' becomes fog bound and eventually lack of fuels means thatBiggles has to make a forced landing.

Surviving this, Dickpa notices thestrange ore in the rocks where they have crash landed. They have discoveredsilver! Their adventures at an end, they return to England, this time by boat.Having some items of the original treasure and after securing a miningconcession on the silver, it has all been very worthwhile.The Cruise of the CondorPublication Details - published by John HamiltonDustjacketFrontispiece(The frontispieceillustrates a scene from page 239 of the book)Click on the above to see it in more detail.