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Amazon Trail ® 3rd Edition: Rainforest Adventures ™ User’s Guide Amazon Trail ® 3rd Edition: Rainforest Adventures ™ © 2000 Mattel, Inc., and its licensors. All rights reserved. The Learning Company and The Amazon Trail are registered trademarks and Rainforest Adventures is a trademark of Mattel, Inc. QuickTime and the QuickTime Logo are trademarks used under license. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Hardware Requirements Windows® 95: Pentium 90 MHz or higher; 16 MB RAM; 3 MB hard drive space (for installation); quad-speed CD-ROM drive; 256-color display; Windows-compatible sound card. Macintosh® : PowerPC; System 7.1 or later; 16 MB RAM; 3 MB hard drive space (for installation); quad-speed CD-ROM drive; 256-color display (13" or larger). Troubleshooting For information related to installing or starting the program, see the README file, located in the TLCTour folder on the CD. Technical Support Department: 319-247-3333 Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, 9 AM – 9 PM; Wednesday 10:30 AM – 9 PM; Saturday 10 AM – 2 PM; all hours Eastern Standard Time E-mail: help@tlcsupport.com For more information about The Learning Company, visit our World Wide Web site: http://www.learningco.com Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 A r ri v i n g i n B el é m . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 S t a r t i n g U p ri v e r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Tal k i n g t o Yo u r G u i d e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 C h e c k i n g Yo u r S u p p li e s . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 F i sh i n g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 E x p l o ri n g t h e R a i n f o r e s t . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 4 M e e t i n g Pe o p l e al o n g t h e Wa y . . . 16 Reading the Guidebook . . . . . . .1 8 U s i n g Yo u r P h o t o A l b u m . . . . . . . .1 9 Ending the Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 0 That single word conjures up in our imaginations more mystery… more awe… and more excitement than perhaps any other. The Amazon Basin is enormous — almost as big as the entire United States (not counting Alaska). It extends from the highest reaches of the Andes Mountains all the way across the continent of South America. At its mouth is an island that is almost twice as big as Vermont. The Amazon River makes every other river in the world look small. In May, when the river is at its highest, the Amazon contains more water than the world’s eight next largest rivers combined. The Amazon is so deep that ocean- going vessels can travel all the way upriver to Manaus, more than 900 miles from the river’s mouth. It is so wide — more than 30 miles across in some places — that you can’t always see both shores. Amazon wildlife is the most diverse on Earth. There are more than 2,500 species of birds. …