Chapter 9
With Dayton’s help, they were able to put together their equipment faster. He had also secured them two light canoe-shaped rubber rafts, which would allow them to travel upriver faster than with the heavier plywood canoes, which they had originally intended to buy. Additionally, Dayton had obtained detailed maps of both the Belize and Mopan river basins from the military. The maps had allowed them to pinpoint the best location on the Mopan to leave the river and enter the jungle.
Part of the intelligence work carried out by the local secret service station had been surveillance of the Guatemalan border, so one of the maps charted recent military activity along the border. Though Guatemala officially recognized British Honduras, the Belizean territory had been claimed in whole o
