A group of villagers found a U.S. family on a piece of driftwood in a river Wednesday after they had vanished for about three days while traveling in Brazil's Amazon river delta...
The adventurous family of four from California had departed from Belém, a port city that serves as the gateway to Brazil's lower Amazon region. They were on their way to Macapá, a city in the northern channel of the Amazon River, when a group of pirates attacked the ferry.
