It turns east and south in a great curve as it threads the gorges and rushes from the Andes foothills. Decision time had come. So he stopped, made camp on a high bluff, safe from sudden rises in the river, and decided to build a boat. The Raft We used Indian tools to make our Indian-style raft of balsa logs, nails of hard wood, and bark ropes. We tackled all the rapids, and followed the river for the next fifty miles.
Sandflies infest the river banks like a plague.
I counted sixty bites on my forearm one morning.