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they would probably be shot under the suspicion of murdering 
him. Swimming to the farinha the DoCtor placed his hand 
upon it, and, being carried round and round in the surging 
whirlpool, he gradually pushed it out ; after which he 
secured two of his paddles in a similar manner, escaping 
from the whirling water after these almost superhuman 
efforts in a perfectly exhaustive condition. When the boat 
passed the Falls it was reloaded with the instruments which 
had been taken out and carried around. But the Doctor’s 
paddle of green wood had sunk in the whirlpool, and he had 
lost all his tools for making another. Fortunately he found 
a piece of wood that had been roughly blocked out for a 
paddle, and by charring the wood and rubbing off the charred 
portion with a sharp stone he made himself another paddle. 
In this he displayed the same fertility of invention to supply 
his necessities which characterised the whole expedition. 
Their frail barque now leaked very badly, and the waves ran 
so high on the river during stormy weather that sometimes 
they were compelled to tie up to the shore. One night, 
while camping on the shore, the DoCtor noticed that the 
boat began to fill with water, and he had barely time to arouse 
the Indians from sleep and unload the boat before it sank. 
On the following day, after much hard work, the boat was 
made to float, when it was reloaded, and they pursued their 
way. 
On the 20th of October, while on the Brazilian side of 
the Mamore, Dr. Heath heard some one calling, and saw 
with a field-glass a naked Chacobo Indian, who was standing 
on the sandy shore of the opposite side, and was trying to 
induce them to come across the river. When no attention 
was paid to him, twenty armed savages sprang out from the 
shelter of the trees, where they were lying in ambush ready 
to attack the boat should it approach that shore. 
Without any further accident Dr. Heath arrived at Reyes 
December nth, where he was received with every demon- 
stration of joy. The school children, hearing of his safe 
return, went out from the town about 3 miles to greet him 
with songs and floral offerings. When he arrived at Reyes 
the church bells were rung, and there was a public ovation. 
Soon afterward Dr. Heath ascended the Beni River on a 
balsa raft, and thus completed the map of the river from its 
mouth to its source near La Paz, when he took his departure 
from South America, and October 16th, 1881, he arrived in 
New York. 
Most fruitful in results has been the exploration of the 
Beni River. It has materially corrected the geography of 
