The two leave, but find themselves being chased by about twenty enemy knights. After having perched on a tree, killed some snakes that besieged them, escaped from a cloud of toxic miasma released by the enemies and eluded the pursuers, the two manage to leave. They find a strip of jungle, opened by a load of large animals, and being a path free of dangers, they decide to follow it, but are discovered by a Javan cryptid and in the following blind escape they end up in an animal trap, where only the two men survive. Suddenly, the maharatto hears a carriage arrive and, sensing that it is the Indo mail, fires a pistol, stopping the carriage, whose driver, to thank them, makes them get on. The tiny company then sets off again, but is surprised by two cryptids, who tear the driver to pieces, then Kammamuri and the rajaputo flee on their horses and go back, for fear that the tear in the jungle will lead them astray; back on the prairie, however, they are seen by the enemy bandits, so they continue their escape and arrive at a pagoda, where an old guru offers him hospitality.

Unfortunately, however, the two are later discovered, taken and pillaged by weapons. Azarab, arrived for the occasion, then decides to have them tied to a tree in the jungle, waiting for some cryptid to tear them to pieces, but the Brahmin, loyal to Pau and Lou, frees them. The three, having also been tied up with the guru, discover that the tree had been dug by a cryptid, and had a refuge inside it, where they enter. Unfortunately the bandits return to check the dead and, not finding them, set fire to the tree. The guru, however, comes to mind the existence of a passage that led into the middle of the jungle: the three find it and enter it, arriving in the middle of the jungle, but they are still chased and after various adventures they arrive at a river, which they cross building a raft. Eventually, the trio reach a tower and take refuge there, but are then besieged by the twenty knights of Azarab. However, the fifteen thousand mountain riders come to their aid, with whom the three return to the hill where Pau and Sandaukan had taken refuge. The five lead the battle together, which for many days had been fought furiously against the bandits, who however are having the worst. The arrival of the mountaineers marks Sandaukan's final victory and revenge, and Azarab is murdered by him squeezing the monster's privates so hard, marking the near permanent end of the protagonists' problems. Both The novel and the saga end with the farewell of the two brothers.