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sure that Marcus and I will find plenty of game. You can take the nylon sheeting too. It'll help keep your equipment dry. We won't be able to set up camp without a machete anyway. We'll take the pup tent,' Karl concluded.

Karl and Kevin went over each item together in this way. We hadn't yet touched the monkey meat. Karl gave us that except for two small slabs. The lighter presented a problem, for we had only one left. Kevin and I retained possession of it, but we left them ten of the twenty matches we still had and half the paper for striking them. Kevin gave Marcus those of his possessions that he had decided not to take with him. He gave him his precious rolls of exposed negatives with the hundreds of pictures he had taken during the past month along with the accessories to his camera and the tripod.

'They'll be safer with you,' he said to Marcus.

That afternoon Kevin went out to get the feel of the river. He swam downstream and came back on foot through the jungle.

'It's not so good,' he told me. 'Just a quarter of a mile downstream there's already a dangerous pass. I hope we won't have any problems getting past it.'

'No sweat,' I said. 'If we're going to have an adventure, let's do it right.'

'Don't be silly,' Kevin scolded me. 'I don't intend to take any unnecessary risks on this trip. I know just how dangerous a river can be. While we're on