Whitney was sailing to Rio in the Amazon to hunt jaguar. He told Rainsford that he hoped the jaguar guns had come from Purdey's. Rainsford falls off the ship while the crew is asleep, so they wouldn't know he was gone till it was too late.
Reference: The Literature and Language Book by McDougal and Littell
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