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    2007 but he probably wasn’t as weak, exhausted, and covered in insect bites as you are. Your swim starts off all right but as you move into the centre of the river the current is just too
    strong for you and you struggle for air in the churning water. You bash your head painfully on a piece of driftwood, swallow too much water, and drown.
    Maybe it would have been better to build a raft after all.
    The end.

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Y ou’ve been lost in the rainforest for a while now but you’re no closer to finding help. It must make sense
    to find a river, because you know that’s where the people of the Amazon are most likely to live. You decide to make it your priority, and then make a raft and float downstream. Eventually,
    you’ll find help that way.
    It’s not long before you hear the trickle of water – a stream! You follow it downstream as it widens, and flows into a bigger stream. You follow this until it
    joins a wide river.

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T he sun beats down as you glide through the water. You’re very hot, but you’re making such good progress that
    you’re glad you didn’t bother stopping. You keep the sun off your skin with your clothes so you won’t get sunburnt.
    After a while, you start to feel sick and faint, and you’re sweating more than ever. You become dizzy, and you realise you should stop and try and find some water to
    drink, but you’re just too tired and confused.
    You’re suffering from heat stroke and it’s not long before you lose consciousness. With no one to help you, you don’t wake up again.
    The end.

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Heat Stroke
    •  Heat exhaustion, which can make you feel faint and sick, occurs when the body rises above its normal temperature of 37 degrees Celsius up to 40 degrees
     Celsius. If it’s left untreated, it can become heat stroke.
    •  At a body temperature of above 40 degrees, you have heat stroke, which is extremely serious (as you have just found out).
    •  The body overheats, dehydrates, its cells break down and its organs can no longer work properly.
    •  Symptoms include rapid, shallow breathing, confusion, heavy sweating that suddenly stops (because there’s no more water in the body), and loss of
     consciousness.
    •  If heat stroke isn’t treated, it can lead to organ failure, brain damage, and death.
    •  Treatment involves cooling the patient and giving them plenty of water or sports drinks, however avoid anything with caffeine in it.
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Y ou look around for things that might help you make a raft. Not far away there’s a stand of bamboo, one of the most
    useful plants in the rainforest. Because the stems are hollow, they float well. You manage to cut enough thick stems to make a raft. You lie them down side by side and tie them together securely
    with lengths of liana.
    You push your raft into the water – it floats! Cautiously, you climb aboard. You’re still afloat! You find a long, stout stick to help you push off from the side
    and help you steer, then get back onto the raft and pole out into the middle of the river.

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Making a Raft
    •  You can build a raft from anything that will float – logs, oil cans, even empty bottles and cans. Bamboo is a perfect raft-making material because
     it’s so buoyant. Balsa wood, which also grows in the Amazon, is another good material for making a raft because it’s extremely lightweight. Amazon tribespeople often make canoes
     out of balsa.
    •  Your design can be as simple or as complicated as you like. The important thing is that it floats! In a survival situation, the simpler the better. But
     ideally, you should attach some cross poles to the underside of the raft to make it sturdy. Attach the poles at right angles to the base of the