While Dr. Dolittle studied the leaf, Tommy and Charles picked more fruit.
"The men in the mountains will be hungry," said Charles.
"They will want something to eat."
"Good thinking, Charles!"
Dr. Dolittle patted him on the shoulder.
Then the doctor let out such a cry that Tommy dropped two pieces of fruit.
"It's Long Arrow!" he shouted.
"Where?" Charles looked around.
"No, here! He's here!"
said Dr. Dolittle as he pointed to the leaf.
Everyone stood around the doctor.
"How do you know?" asked Tommy.
The doctor pointed to one drawing.
Tommy couldn't tell what it was.
"This is an eagle's nest," Dr. Dolittle explained.
"Inside the nest is a man.
That's Long Arrow.
Everyone knows he is close friends with the eagles."
Tommy didn't know that.
The doctor stood up and said,
"We have no time to waste!
Long Arrow is in danger.
He needs our help."
"It looks like he's up there."
Charles pointed to the mountains.
"But where? The mountains are so big!" said Tommy.
Again the doctor showed him the leaf drawing.
"See the mountain top?
It looks like a hawk's head.
That's where they are!" he said.
Without another word, everyone started running toward the mountains.
"Wait! Let's take the jabizri!" the doctor called out suddenly.
"Here it is," said Tommy.
Tommy held up a fruit that looked like an orange.
He had made a small cut on top and scraped out all the flesh.
He placed the insect inside and put the cut out part back in place—like a lid.
The doctor smiled at him.
"What a clever boy you are!" he said.
Climbing up the mountain was long and difficult.
Tommy's legs were shaking so badly that he wanted to sit down and rest.
But Long Arrow and his men needed them.
They had to go on.
After many hours, Dr. Dolittle and the others finally made it to the top.
"Look for the hawk's head," said Dr. Dolittle.
They looked and looked but saw nothing like a hawk's head.
"Doctor," Polynesia said carefully, "maybe we should try again tomorrow.
It's getting dark."
"We will find Long Arrow tonight," Dr. Dolittle said firmly.
No one spoke for a while.
Then Dr. Dolittle snapped his fingers.
"That's it!" he shouted.
"Tommy! Let the jabizri go."
Tommy wanted to keep the beautiful insect as a pet.
"The jabizri will lead us to Long Arrow," said the doctor.
So Tommy took the lid off the fruit and watched as the jabizri crawled out.
"Keep your eye on it," instructed the doctor.
The jabizri stretched its six legs then walked around in a circle three times.
"What's it doing?" Charles cried impatiently.
"The poor thing is stretching," said Polynesia.
"It was trapped in that fruit for a very long time."
Finally the jabizri began to move.
Dr. Dolittle and the others followed it downward.
It led them to one side of the mountain.
Then the jabizri disappeared inside a crack.
"Now what do we do?" moaned Charles.
But the doctor was busy examining the crack in the mountain.
"This looks like an entrance," Dr. Dolittle said.
"Dr. Dolittle!" Tommy cried excitedly as he pointed down.
They had been standing on the hawk's head all along.
"Then Long Arrow must be . . ." the doctor looked all around.
"In here! This is a cave!
This rock must have fallen and blocked the entrance!"
The doctor started to bang against the rock.
"Hurry! We don't have much time!" shouted Polynesia.
Dr. Dolittle and Charles tried to push the rock.
It wouldn't budge.
Tommy noticed the bottom of the rock was resting on soft ground.
"Doctor!" he shouted.
"If we remove this dirt, maybe the rock will fall down by itself."
"Good idea, Tommy!" the doctor replied.
They all got on their knees and started to dig away the dirt.
Soon the big rock started to shake back and forth.
"Get out of the way!" cried the doctor.
They watched as the giant rock fell away from the mountain and crashed.
It had indeed been covering the entrance to a cave.