Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle
Image Attribution: Arnold Genthe (Public domain)

It was August 2nd when we snapped our last link with the outer world by bidding farewell to the Esmeralda. Since then four days have passed, during which we have engaged two large canoes from the Indians, made of so light a material (skins over a bamboo framework) that we should be able to carry them round any obstacle.

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