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We went through the mountainous part, through the cloud forest, and we reached the headwaters of – we reached a river, and we passed through an indigenous territory. The Indians – we had them build a raft for us. Even while they were building the raft, everything was amazing to me – just the greenery, the vegetation. It felt wonderful.
And there were lots of animals. We could hear a lot of animals. And even though I wasn't very good at seeing animals, I was seeing lots of animals. And then we went down the river in this raft with three Mosetenes. The people who traveled with us brought their bows and arrows and they were hunting all the time. Every day they would bring meat or fish. They would fish with bow and arrow too. And too me this was really magical. It was just pure magic, and I would follow them with my mouth hanging open.
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Feb. '99 Journal