She followed the hoatzin calls at some point in the latter days and found the river. The river led downstream to the lumberjack camp.
**The camp.** She has described arriving at the camp and recognizing it as a human place — a hut with a palm-leaf roof, equipment, a moored boat, the gasoline. She knew she had found what she had been walking toward. She treated her arm. She rested.
She does not know how much time passed between her arrival at the camp and the arrival of the three men. Her account gives the impression of a period of sleep, of recovery from the effort of treating the wound, of waiting in a state that was not quite waking.
**The men.** When they arrived — on January 3, 1972, by the rescue record — her first response was fear. She has described evaluating whether they were dangerous. They were not. They understood what had happened to her. They treated her wounds, gave her food, and began the process of getting her out.
The eleven-hour canoe journey that followed covered the distance she had walked in approximately ten days. The ratio between what she had covered on foot, injured and without food, and what was covered by canoe in eleven hours, gives a specific measure of the efficiency of water transport in the Amazon and the specific magnitude of what she had accomplished on foot.
## Bats, Birds, and the Continuation
When Juliane Koepcke returned to Panguana in 1981 to begin the fieldwork for her doctoral thesis, she was returning to the forest where she had grown up, to the research station her parents had built, to work that was in direct continuation of what Maria and Hans-Wilhelm had started.