Explorer’s Diary

May 4th Day 43

Today was Quite a strange day as I woke up inside my hut in the fort and shook my boots out before putting them on and it turns out I saved myself a great fright from doing so as a small snake fell onto the floor and slithered out the doorway. We finished the raft that will take us downstream this afternoon, Andrew has not yet started talking after his snakebite but he seems to be getting better by the hour. An exciting event that happened today though was an orangutan with a bad leg coming down to check us out before we had lunch as we decided to have a picnic outside the fort.

May 5th Day 44

Earlier today I Spotted a jaguar pacing outside the fort and one of the natives managed to catch it and knocked it out before showing us why to leave them alone and why to respect them before laying it outside until it woke up and trotted away. We are set to leave the fort tomorrow on the raft and I will be sad to go as I have enjoyed it here and wish I could stay.

May 6th Day 45

This morning we went downstream and as I write this I am lying in a much less comfortable bed inside my tent. The fire outside is managing to keep the majority of insects away but those mosquitos that find my skin are the size of my pinkie toe nail. I am sharing my tent but am content as the nights are fairly cold and the humidity keeps almost all of us unhappy but we are learning to deal with it.

May 7th Day 46

Andrew has spoke again! It is him I’m sharing a tent with and I heard him mumble in his sleep last night! And then at breakfast he said: “I’ll have that first one.” We are all as relived as each other and are now questioning him about the snake that bit him to make sure his mind is ok.

May 8th Day 47

We found it! The City of Z!!! We are all so excited to explore it! We are going to explore it tomorrow. We are not sure why no one has found it yet as it is literally about 40 miles from the fort we were staying at and it is so mysterious looking and poking above the treetops.

May 9th Day 48

We tried to go inside this morning but we decided to keep out as we found out it is full of traps. A seemingly poisonous spear flew at John as he tried to enter. We however think we have solved the greatest mystery in jungle exploration history as we found three sets of skeletal remains that we think is Percy Fawcett and his lot and have decided to leave them because Bill touched them and then felt unwell so he went to his tent which caught fire the minute he entered it, he managed to get out ok though.

May 11th Day 50

It just disappeared. The city of Z just disappeared. We had pictures but john said he saw a big creepy looking figure moving about the camp and bam! No move pictures. Some of us think he’s lying and he somehow moved the camp but if he did he moved all the trees and a mountain and a steam with all the fish in it and I know I heard weird noises last night though I assumed it was someone getting up for the toilet but no. He is right. I guess we better just head home. I’m sorry I did not write in here yesterday as well.

May 12th Day 51

John has gone insane because he apparently saw the beast that took our pictures again and we don’t know what happened but Andrew saw what he saw as well. We don’t know what to do.

May 13th Day 52

This morning we woke up and saw john had been ripped limb from limb, we are mourning now but we know he probably would not have made it back as he has never been the sort of person that did what he did in the last 24 hours. We are leaving.

May 14th Day 53

We are all so afraid. We are going. See you at home if we make it…

 

 

 

None of this actually happened.

By Charlie