Getting help
Knowing that he needed more help than was available on the island, then Russel took a boat to a nearby island and returned with a nurse and police officer. The nurse checked Alvarenga over and the police officer attempted to make sense of his story.
They took the castaway back to Ebon, the main port in the area, and checked him into the hospital. Once he was comfortable and doctors had checked him over, rumors began to circulate about this mysterious stranger, and more than one person began to guess that he might be the lost Mexican fisherman.