Anaconda People of the Amazon Tribes, Predators & Me

My name is Gordon Buchanan. I'm a wildlife cameraman.

I've filmed some of the most dangerous

and misunderstood animals on the planet.

Oh, my God!

But what's it like to actually live alongside terrifying predators?

And raise your children with neighbours that might just eat you?

To find out, I'm going to live with three extraordinary tribal families.

They'll teach me to see

these creatures from a totally new perspective.

(Whoa, look, look, look!)

IN OWN LANGUAGE:

In the Amazon, I'll discover the secrets of the giant anaconda.

It is just simply a monster!

In Africa, I'll learn to stand up to wild lions.

(My heart is in my mouth!)

And in Papua New Guinea, I'll enter the mysterious world

of the crocodile.

I didn't realise it was that big.

Spending time with these tribes will be a life-changing experience,

one that will transform my understanding

of the animals we fear the most.

I am travelling to one of the most spectacular

and challenging wild places on the planet, the Amazon rainforest.

I'm here to learn from the masters of this environment,

the last Waorani Indians of Ecuador.

Back in the 1990s, I spent over two years living and working

in the Amazon, and in all that time never once did I actually view

this place through the eyes of the people that know it best,

the people who are truly part of this world.

So, for the next two weeks, I'll be living with the Waorani Indians,

in the hope that I can gain a new understanding

of the Amazon's iconic animals.

And there's one animal in particular

that they have a special relationship with, the biggest snake

on the planet, the green anaconda.

I've heard that the Waorani actually catch and then release these giants

with their bare hands.

I'm hoping I'll be brave enough to join them.

The Waorani live in a remote part of Eastern Ecuador

in one of the most biologically rich jungles on Earth.

They have an incredible relationship with the wildlife here,

one that's developed over thousands of years.

The group I'm meeting came into contact with the outside world

in the 1980s, but still live traditionally

and they're fighting for it to remain that way.

Hello.

I'm going to fall.

I'm Gordon, what's your name?

Penti, good to meet you, Penti.

Bai, Bai, good to meet you, Bai.

So you're brothers?

Ah, OK.

Tepena. Gordon. OK.

Hello, thank you.

It's good to be here, thank you.

Waponi.

This is great, what a welcome.

This village is called Bameno.

It's home to around 150 people.

Some now have electricity and mobile phones,

but they still rely on their incredible knowledge

of the forest to survive.

I think, when you arrive somewhere new, I always feel a little bit,

I don't know, a bit nervous,

but as soon as you see happy smiling faces,

it doesn't really matter where you are, who you're meeting -

all you need is a warm welcome and a smile,

and I certainly got that here.

Penti, the leader of the village, shows me to his house.

Ah-hah!

Thank you.

It's like a woolly monkey.

A sloth?

I was thinking I was more like a strong jaguar, but OK.

I've come from a long, long way away, far away.

Do you have beliefs about all of the animals

that live in the forest?

Green anacondas are constrictors.

They can eat wild pigs, caiman and even humans.

But because the Waorani believe that they're descended from anacondas,

they don't kill them.

Instead, they ritually catch and release these giants

to demonstrate their bravery and acquire spiritual power

and it's this extraordinary feat that I want to see

more than anything else.

But it's not just the anaconda that's important to them.

Many forest animals live in the village as pets.

BIRD CHIRPS

But I wasn't expecting to see

one of the Amazon's most elusive species here.

This is the most remarkable thing I have ever seen.

It's a tapir,

but it's a wild, completely wild tapir

that has come out...

from the forest.

I'm out of food. It is an extraordinary-looking creature.

It's kind of distantly related to horses and rhinoceros.

It is quite horse-like, it's got a little mane like a horse.

Feet are very different, it's got feet like a hippo.

Oh, yeah, yeah, you can see that, scratch marks there.

Now, that is... That's a big, old meal for a jaguar

and it is lovely, you know, it's lovely to think that no-one

in the village has said, "Let's eat it,"

they're quite happy, really like having it around as a pet.

Oh, right.

This is great!

The Waorani are taking me to see their forest -

maybe we'll even find an anaconda.

Having lived in these lands for thousands of years,

they have an intimate knowledge of the rainforest's animals.

I want to learn all I can from these people.

What's this place?

OK, do you want me to go first?

LOUD BIRD CRY Is that the toucan?

Ah, OK.

This forest has more kinds of animal than anywhere else

in South America, and possibly the world.

It's home to the powerful jaguar,

great flocks of macaws,

herds of peccary

and at least ten different species of monkey.

I'm excited to be learning about these animals from

the true masters of the jungle.

I've never felt particularly at home in jungles, despite the amount

of time that I've spent there, whereas actually seeing these men,

how much at home they are

and just how proud they are of this place,

of their world.

Every single sound,

every single tree has got a name,

everyone knows what it is.

It's like being...

Yeah, it's just like having the ultimate forest tour guides.

Yeah.

Every now and again, I keep seeing movement up in the trees

and there's squirrel monkeys, they're fairly small.

The men are taking me to a place

where a particularly large anaconda is sometimes seen.

Anacondas spend much of their time underwater,

holding their breath for up to eight hours.

They can mate and give birth in the water,

but they have to come out to warm up in the sun.

You can see just a little tunnel in there where the anaconda's

come out of the water and just sloped off through the grass.

What's that? Oh, wow.

So that's a single scale from the underside of the snake.

So it's huge. How big, do you think?

This size?

GORDON LAUGHS

That thick.

Is that more skin there?

'The largest published record of a live anaconda is just over

'five metres - that's 17 feet.

'This one could be even bigger.'

It is exciting to know that somewhere close by is going to be

the owner of this skin, a very, very large anaconda.

With the wet season still a month away,

Penti thinks that our presence has brought on this sudden rain shower.

The thought of a nice storm in the tropics is great, but the thought

of that being down to an angry anaconda I'm not that sure of,

I don't think I'd like to even contemplate an enormous angry snake.

OK, OK.

For now, the anaconda has eluded us.

To be honest, I'm relieved.

Back near the village,

I've joined the women to help with the washing up and to hear what

it's like raising your family alongside these monsters.

Do you not worry, with your children when they're young,

with animals like anaconda?

You know, it's interesting, the Waorani live alongside these

huge snakes and they know that they're a threat,

but yet they actually don't go out and kill them,

there's a respect for this animal.

So Tepena, he's a brave boy.

I'd love to see an anaconda, really love to see one,

but to actually approach it

and try and pick it up,

no, I don't really fancy that.

As evening falls, I head to Penti's house.

I'll be living here with his family for the next two weeks.

SHE SINGS:

It is very nice.

I do feel... I feel ridiculously at home here, despite the fact

that I haven't even been here for half a day yet.

Yes, please. Thank you.

'This drink is called chicha,

'it's made from a vegetable they grow in the forest.'

Mmm.

'It's the staple meal for the Waorani...'

Very good.

'..and it's my dinner this evening.'

I believe you.

I'm slightly tired, so I think I'm just going to close my eyes

and dream of giant anacondas.

Giant angry anacondas.

ROOSTER CROWS

I had a very nice sleep, actually,

but at one point I woke up and hadn't a clue where I was,

and then sort of I could see a pig skull hanging up above me

and I was like, "Where the hell is this? Oh, yeah, I remember."

'It's chicha again for breakfast.

'It seems that this drink is all we've got,

'but there are signs that today could be good for hunting.'

Those birds that fly over at night-time,

"bo-bo-bo-bo, bo-bo-bo-bo."

Yeah.

Penti doesn't want to miss this opportunity to feed his family,

so our search for the anaconda is put on hold.

The men have been hunting in this vast forest

since they were children.

From here, you could walk for two weeks before hitting a road,

so getting lost could be fatal.

Penti wants to explain what to do if we get separated during the hunt.

REVERBERATING THUMPING Wow.

-ECHOING:

-Ca-oooo!

LOW THUMPING Hang on, I need to get a better...

ECHOING: Hooooo!

Bai, Penti, Tepena,

I'm lost!

That is good to know.

Yeah, let's go.

'The Waorani are some of the greatest hunters in the Amazon,

'and it's not long before they pick up a trail.'

We've just found some fresh tracks of peccaries, wild pigs, off in

this direction and we're going to try and follow them, so we're

leaving the blowpipes here and we're going to try and follow the trails.

You can actually get these wafts and you can smell the peccaries

and everyone's got quite excited about that.

The men still hunt peccaries in the traditional way,

using sharpened sticks as spears.

I'll need to be on my guard.

Peccaries live in large groups and can be dangerous.

They've been known to kill people with their tusks,

so I've got to stay near to the men to be safe.

The signs of these wild pigs are everywhere

and it's all really fresh,

and it's all very...

slightly odd, being with a group of men whose sole intention is

to kill an animal, and I think you kind of...

you get swept along in that,

you kind of get signed up to it, I suppose,

because I do believe that inside every human being,

every man particularly, the hunter is not that far beneath the surface

and I think that excitement,

that thrill,

that promise of something to eat, is very powerful.

But these guys are so fast.

You can see that their whole physical design

of the Waorani is perfect for this environment.

They're small, they're strong, they can just duck under branches

that I have to climb over and they can move quick and silently.

I can't say that about myself.

'I'm struggling to keep up and I've lost all sense

'of where we are.'

We're just kind of walking,

I'm not sure if we've doubled backed on ourselves, whether we're going

in a straight line, whether this is the same swamp as the last one.

Oh, God, I'm sinking deeper.

Oh, man.

(OK, I've been told to be quiet.)

(We might have some pigs up ahead.)

LOW GRUNTING

LOUD SQUEALING

(Listen to that!)

MEN YELL

SILENCE

I have lost everyone else.

Everyone else sprinted off.

ANIMAL SCREECHES IN DISTANCE

Right...

I am completely alone.

I can hear voices over there.

Ah, jeez, this isn't good.

DISTANT YELLING:

I'm only by myself for a moment, but it's enough to scare me.

I don't know what the shouting is about.

I wonder if they've got one.

Soon I have my answer.

An injured peccary will be very dangerous.

The pig's run off with the spear still in it,

so we've got to spread out, see if we can find it.

HE YELLS IN OWN LANGUAGE

OTHER HUNTERS SHOUT

OK, he's got it, he's got it, he's got it.

The hunt it over.

I can't think of any

proper way to describe that, other than just, er...

..a thing of...

..a thing of wonder and a thing of...

I think a thing of beauty as well,

which is strange, considering it's ended in the, you know,

death of a wild animal, but to see the men working together in a place

that is just incredibly challenging, just, I mean, beyond belief.

And I think these men make it look really beautiful, in a way,

through their ability to survive here.

And part of that survival, you know, is about killing,

killing things, killing things to eat, to survive.

There is something vividly primal about this,

just following a man with a dead pig strapped to his back

through a swamp that looks like it could be from another time.

It's all very quite peculiar but sort of, in some ways,

almost familiar.

Maybe these primal instincts,

instincts that just mean that you can survive in some of the most

inhospitable places on Earth,

are not as hidden as we think.

After half an hour, it's my turn to carry the peccary.

I've come here to learn about wildlife

from the Waorani's point of view.

They've taught me about animals they revere and animals they eat,

both critical for survival.

I'm good with ducking.

Ah, I'm stuck.

I'm literally like a stuck pig.

Come on. Oh!

There you go.

Upriver.

It's heavy.

Penti carried it, then Penti got tired and then I carried it.

We're just burning the hair off it,

but the smell of burning hair is...

pretty acrid.

I do think that if everyone that likes to eat meat

had to do this, I think there would be a lot more

vegetarians in the world.

We are all eagerly awaiting dinner.

The Waorani eat meat when they catch it, once a week if they're lucky.

This pig will be shared amongst Penti's extended family

and neighbours, about 20 people, so it'll only last a day.

Very good.

It feels like a real honour to be sitting with the hunters

and to be eating the kind of choice cuts, cuts that are reserved

for the hunters and I think for me, at this stage,

it's an important thing, I think it's a bonding thing.

The balls. That's testicle.

Yeah.

With full bellies, we can continue our search for the anaconda.

The Waorani now have several motorised canoes,

thanks to government grants.

It means that they can travel easily around their territory.

It's early morning, the sun's not yet properly up

and the men are taking me down the river

and what we're going to do is just scan the banks and then kind of

look into this dark stuff and hope that I can an anaconda.

And there's every chance, you know,

every chance that we could see something.

'It's not long before Tepena spots an animal that they all love.'

HE SPEAKS IN OWN LANGUAGE

Oh, a dolphin.

'Pink river dolphins...'

Oh, coming straight towards us.

'..thriving here 3,000 miles from the Atlantic Ocean.'

Oh, wow!

Quite possibly the most mysterious animal in the Amazon.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, there we go.

Yeah, wow.

Oh, three, there's three of them.

These Amazonian dolphins are just very unlike any dolphin

you'd find in the ocean.

ENGINE STARTS

The Waorani know every bend in this river

and the best spots to see animals...

..but sometimes even they're surprised.

Hey, fella. You're lovely, I've never seen that before.

A tapir swimming across the river.

Oh, it's a good size.

It's a caiman, it's a South American alligator.

Ah, you beauty, look at you.

So, one of the main food sources for anacondas.

So an anaconda would just grab a caiman like that

and instantly coil around it and that would be game over for

the caiman, just squeeze the life out of it and then consume it.

Oops, in he goes.

Two hours later,

Penti stops at a place they've seen a huge anaconda before.

Oh, yeah, yeah!

There's a trail here that comes from the lagoon

out of the water through all this thick vegetation and off through

the grass, literally snaking off through the grass.

There's a massive big hole down in here.

Look at that.

This place is every bit like the secret lair of some giant monster.

This is slightly sinister, it's dark, it's mysterious,

just like the animal itself.

You can actually see this entire trunk,

all the moss has been worn off it.

That's because some enormous snake has been sunning itself in here.

It's one of the few clearings above me,

so, on a sunny day, this huge serpent comes out

and stretches along...

..this branch, warming up in the sun.

Not by myself!

With you, yes, maybe...

One, two, three, four...

Four of us,

but by myself, no way, no, no, no.

Yeah, it does make sense.

I suppose the Waorani, they have to have an outlet

to demonstrate that they are still fearless warriors,

that they're prepared to do the things that others wouldn't.

Brave man.

ROOSTER CROWS I've been here for over a week

and the family haven't had any meat since the peccary,

so the men are keen to go hunting again.

Before we head out, Daboto wants me to see her manioc

and plantain garden, on the edge of the forest.

With pleasure! Ah-ya!

It's the women who grow these staple crops

and, in this tropical climate,

they grow all year round, so it's a full-time job.

Planting the plantains, the manioc, is as important as the hunting,

because hunts aren't always successful,

so this work is as essential as anything that the men do

and, to be honest, it feels actually a lot harder.

I leave the ladies to their work and join the hunting party.

For this hunt, they're armed with blowpipes and poison-tip darts.

We're heading to a clay lick,

a place where animals gather to find essential minerals in the mud.

Jaguar? Wow, look, yeah, yeah, look at that.

Gosh, that is very, very rare that you actually find

evidence of these big cats in the forest.

You know that they're around,

but you never hear them and you very rarely see them

and every once in a while you come across these scratch marks.

So this is just a jaguar marking its territory,

sharpening its claws.

When do you think this was?

OK, let's go.

I want to bump into this jaguar, that would be great.

A few hundred metres back from the clay lick, we hear signs of life.

LOUD CAWING

Oh, gosh, maybe 20 macaws!

The macaws are absolutely stunning.

So are the flocks of parakeets.

But, as we're all looking up,

Bai spots something just a few metres to the side.

What did you see?

Oh, God, I'd love to have seen that with my own eyes.

A jaguar 20, less, 15 metres away.

It's amazing the way these men can just melt into the forest,

but a jaguar takes that to a new level.

They are practically invisible.

Good eyes, good eyes, Bai.

'As we reach the clay lick, any animals that may have

'been here have scattered.'

Oh, there you go, look.

Penti and his family have shown me so much about this forest,

now I'd like to see if I can show them something new.

OK.

What I'm going to do is set up a camera trap,

cos what I'd like to show the men is lots of different animals,

I think they would love to see that.

OK, we will put this here.

With no animals to hunt at the clay lick, we start to head home,

but then we hear the call of an animal the Waorani love to eat.

SCREECHING

Spider monkeys.

Before I know it, we're on a monkey hunt.

That's the weirdest thing.

I feel quite ashamed to say that I'm not...

It's not that I'm not opposed to it, it's, er...

I don't know, this is just their way of life, this is how they survive

and who am I to come in and tell them that it's wrong?

Because it's not wrong, it really isn't.

Yeah, I suppose... How I live my life, there's so many wrong things

about that that these people could point the finger at, you know.

For me, they live a very simple existence, they live, you know,

an existence just taking what they need from the forest.

It just happens that monkeys are one of those things that they take.

With the monkeys moving fast, lining up a clear shot seems impossible.

Hunting these monkeys 30 metres up in the tree tops

requires formidable fire power.

The Waorani use three-metre long blowpipes,

a design honed over thousands of years.

The darts are tipped with poison,

which will first paralyse and then kill the monkey.

Getting a dart in is proving difficult.

I think what they're trying to do is scare the monkeys,

make them panic, kind of isolate them, get them out

onto the open branches and they can get a clear shot of them.

They definitely do have a dart in the monkey,

I just saw it move and that little white bit of cotton moving.

Almost immediately, that poison's going to start working.

Its muscles become paralysed, it'll freeze, maybe drop from the tree.

It's on quite a broad branch, and if it dies up there,

I don't think we're going to get it, it's not going to fall out.

Bai's climbing up the tree, but I can't believe he's going to

climb all the way up there, it's over 100 feet.

I just thought that that was it

and then Bai starts climbing up,

just hand over hand, he's got a vine wrapped round his feet,

just to give him a bit of extra grip.

You know, you think...

If we want to eat something, you go to a shop,

you hand over a piece of plastic and off you go, you take your food home.

He is literally risking his life for the sake of a meal for his family.

It is unbelievably impressive,

just the skill and...

..the bravery of these men.

It is the most incredible thing I've ever, ever seen, it really is.

OK.

OK, he's got it, he's got it, Bai has got it.

Oh, here it comes. LOUD CRASHING

Holy moley.

Poor fella.

OK.

It's not even a big meal, I'm sure the four of us could

finish this monkey in one sitting, but I suppose that is survival

in the rainforest - everything you eat is hard-won.

That's skill, bravery bordering on madness. Hey!

Well done.

That was good, that was very good.

By the way, Bai is...

I think he's, like, a year, two years older than me.

No way! No way.

I'd get maybe three metres off the ground, run out of energy

and then I'd get scared and then slide back down.

Something has really changed in me out here.

The men have taught me not only how to feel comfortable in the forest,

but how life here depends on sharing what the rainforest

has to offer with respect.

Not far from here is a growing threat to the Waorani's way of life.

Oil companies are drilling in the area

and the Waorani are deeply concerned about the impact on their world.

Already they've lost two thirds of their ancestral land.

They're determined to fight to protect what's left.

These huge snakes could help them in this struggle.

The Waorani and the anaconda

would both be at risk from any oil pollutants,

so Penti and his family are working with a scientist

to tag and monitor these snakes.

Skin samples are taken to find out

the impact of the oil on these animals.

What affects the anaconda may also affect these people.

It might seem quite a peculiar partnership,

tribal people working with researchers,

but it's perfect, you're using all of this knowledge and expertise

to find out what is happening in these rivers, what is happening

to this ecosystem and I think it's not just for themselves,

it's not just for the species that live in the forest,

the protection of the Amazon

is for the betterment of all of mankind, I really believe that.

ROOSTER CROWS

The next morning, I have a treat for the tribe.

This is the one opportunity that I have to show the Waorani something,

rather than them showing me.

It's all of the footage from the camera traps that have been out

in the forest and it is very exciting because I haven't

seen a single one and I don't know which animals are on there.

Right, are we all ready?

OK, here goes.

Oh, look at that!

My goodness, how many are there?

That's breakfast, lunch and dinner right there.

Ooh, there.

It must be amazing actually to...

I suppose, whenever they see pigs, they see maybe just a glimpse

through the forest or when they're hunting them.

So many of them.

Ah, fabulous.

I'd love to have been there sitting quietly

and actually seen that with my own eyes.

OK, next one.

Oh-ho.

What do you call it?

Sunbittern.

Off he goes.

OK, next.

Did you know the spider monkeys come down to the salt lick?

It looks like the salt lick's the place to be.

It's amazing the congregation of animal at this one site,

you can't help but wonder, where are the predators?

Every image that I see, I expect to see everything just scatter

and for a cat to walk through.

There we go, look, oh, wow!

Ocelots. Fabulous. Wow.

These are solitary...solitary cats.

Wow, that is a really rare glimpse of an incredibly elusive creature.

OK, show's over.

Ah, it's very nice to be able to show them

some of the animals that live in the forest.

I suppose, for the younger kids, maybe someone this size,

has never been into the forest and actually seen a pig,

has never seen a macaw up close.

It's great.

It's not just the wildlife here that's remarkable,

but also the Waorani themselves.

Hearing about the encroaching oil companies worries me greatly.

This way of life...

I think the simplicity of it is really something to be envied

and, you know, I do wonder and I worry what these kids

are going to be doing.

When they reach the age of Penti, are they going to be living

in this way, in this village, are they going to be hunting

with spears and blowpipes?

I would love to think that they would be, that enough of that

sort of importance of their heritage, their tradition,

their way of life, the Waorani way of life, is passed on to them

and they want to hold on to the things that make them different,

the things that make these kids unique, and they are unique.

They're Waorani.

GORDON CHUCKLES

I've experienced so much with Penti and his family,

but there's still one thing I'd love to see.

How do these men capture huge snakes?

Time is running out...

..but perhaps today I'll get my chance.

Sounds like a plan.

It's the one thing that's missing for me, I think, you know,

coming to this forest and to hear the stories

and the beliefs about these huge snakes and I think I really do

need to see one, and I think I really do

need to sort of, you know...

..stay part of this group and do what these men are doing,

even if it is catching the biggest snake that I've ever seen.

Yeah, I'm ready.

The anaconda that lives in the lagoon has just been spotted.

We're hoping it'll still be there.

Yeah, we can do it together, the four of us.

I'm scared.

We can do it, we can do it.

I keep on looking out across this lagoon expecting to see

something that will resemble the Loch Ness Monster.

It feels very, very much like the right place

to look for a huge snake.

Tepena has just spotted some signs of

an anaconda having moved through the side of the lagoon.

(Tepena, the snake?)

(OK, the snake's there.)

(OK, I can see it, just its head,

(it is absolutely enormous.)

It is without a doubt the biggest snake I have ever seen.

I don't think there's any way that we can try and catch this safely.

MEN YELL

I've got no idea what's going on, I just see hands, the snake,

they're trying to get it out, but...

'It's important for these men that they don't harm the snake

'when they catch it.'

What an absolute monster.

Ah, OK, I think it's coming.

OK, we've got it disentangled from the roots

and it just keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger,

it is just simply a monster,

a beautiful monster.

OK, one more, you got it, you got it?

It's almost hard to tell how big it is,

but, you know, it must be pushing five metres.

The head is absolutely enormous.

The girth of it is incredible.

Looking at it you could think, "Oh, I could easily fit inside that,

"any one of us could."

Underneath the bulk of its weight,

you can just feel just rippling muscle, rippling power.

It is incredible.

OK.

Overcoming all sorts of things here.

LOW HISS

Oh, gosh, you are a beauty.

Its size just is beyond belief, it really is.

If catching a snake of this size is about proving that you are brave

and that you're fearless, OK, I get it, you are.

I suppose it's all about kind of trying to match

the power of this snake with their own power...

..and they've done it.

I don't know, I haven't done it without fear.

You know, even now, holding its head in my hands, I'm just worried

it's going to get out of my grip, it's going to grab a hold of me

and take me with it back into its lagoon.

'Catching the snake is spiritually important to the men,

'but now science is, too, and they take a small skin sample

'to test for toxins caused by oil pollution.'

The Amazon needs to be protected

and these are the people that actually are doing it,

they're right there at the sharp edge, at the coal face.

OK, I'm going to let it slide down, OK, I'm letting my end go.

'This snake is bigger than any live anaconda ever recorded

'in scientific journals.'

Beauty and power.

Despite the differences between giant anaconda and the Waorani,

their fates are linked and maybe the future for them all,

the future for this forest lies in the hands of these people.

Good luck, snake. What a beauty.

Daboto, the heroes return!

Look at this.

Huge, absolutely huge.

I'm sure this design on my arm or design of the anaconda

is going to fade over the next couple of weeks,

but my memory of this place,

the times that I've shared with these people...

Yeah, it's going to remain with me for the rest of my life.

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It's been an amazing, incredible experience spending time

with the Waorani and I've met lots of people around the world

and you have inspired me more than any, so for that I thank you.

Keep up the fight.

Daboto.

Waponi. Thank you.

Good luck.

I arrived and they're smiling, I'm leaving and they're smiling.

They are a happy, happy people

and just long may that continue, whatever the future holds for them.

OK. Waponi.

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