[PW] Children's book, Volcano, Japanese Soldier

[Sea Wasp]

	As I do periodically, I'm reposting this request hoping to find a 
book I read when I was much younger -- I think in the early 1970s. 
What I remember of the book, which may be slightly scrambled, is as 
follows:

	1) Takes place on a tropical island, like Hawaii; may or may not have 
actually BEEN Hawaii.

	2) Protagonists are teenagers; I think two boys and two girls, 
althought it COULD be two boys and one girl.

	3) The protagonists, either lost or exploring in the jungle, 
encounter a Japanese soldier, very old, who's still fighting WWII. 
They are captured by him, partly I think because one of the girls is 
injured and unable to run.

	4) Eventually they make their escape from the soldier, in a jeep or 
jeep-like vehicle.

	5) The climax of the story comes as they are escaping by driving down 
an old lava tube, and the island's volcano has just reawakened. They 
have to out-drive the lava down the tube (Hawaiian and similar lavas 
can flow VERY fast) and get out JUST before the lava catches them.


	This was, I think, during the era I was reading a lot of Danny Dunn 
books, but I don't *THINK* it was one of those.

	Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?


	




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