FRONT LAND Pygmy BAAC John Jost, USA My sister arranged for us to live in tents among the pygmies BAAC, who worked for her. She could not stay with us throughout the campaign and going back after the first night. In the village lived nine men who had worked with her, as well as four wives and eight children. We packed our belongings and hit the road. We had to walk five kilometers to Mosapoly, a village in the BAAC to meet with several pygmies, who worked for my sister. Several people were going to meet us later, so that the path we set out not at full strength. Then he will need to overcome another 4 kilometers along the tropical jungle to the river on the bank of which it was planned to camp. Again in the way we came to the site, which BAAC have chosen for our camp. Around were the real jungle. It was not clear exactly how it will be possible to use the tents, which we took with us. One of the BAAC began to cut their plants with a machete to clear the place. It turned out very well. After 15 minutes we had cleared a large enough area to put up a tent and start a fire. In the end, we were joined others in an attempt to better equip our meadow. Clearing the site for the camp have been working my sister's tent, which they use in the forest. Nevertheless, coming up in women immediately started to build a traditional dwellings BAAC. Frameworks such dwellings are built from the trunks of small trees. Two trees are placed crosswise, and their tops bend and bind in the middle. This action is repeated until, do not find something in form like Igloo igloo (domed building with a diameter 3-4 meters and a height of about 2 meters from wind-compacted snow or ice blocks - approx. Perevi.). Large leaves are used to make flooring to the frame, they also cover the floor. Initially, women began to build several such designs, but finally settled on building a large home, using our tarp as a roof. Bench Wong, one of the elders of the BAAC, he went into the woods, where he returned, carrying a few tree trunks. He quickly began to hack them with his machete, making the bench for us. I told my sister that he asked Wong to show me how to make a simple chair. And we went into the jungle to find stuff for him. By the number of tree that we have collected, I realized that the chair is not as simple as I imagined initially. When we returned, Wang started to work, and soon in front of me stood a chair of normal size with back and armrests. I'm in a chair the evening, we were just sitting in the dark. I looked at the ground, and suddenly my eyes began to distinguish the small lights everywhere. At first I thought it was as cut those same stars before my eyes, which appear before fainting. But it was something else. And then before I suddenly realized that all the earth shines. A few minutes later a busy thinking about when I was already beginning to seem that clouded my mind, I suddenly realized that light is not the roots, not that some kind of creeping plants. It turned out that the roots and stems, if we remove them from the bark begins to shine, as contained phosphorescent particles. Another strange feature of the jungle were fireflies. In the jungle, always dark, even if the sky is quite bright because the moon, the dense foliage of the jungle plunges into total darkness. And in the darkness suddenly appear tiny flash of light from the flying fireflies. Children BAAC The next day we were going to hunt with the BAAC. They can not afford guns and prefer the network. First, they set them, then drive the animals back, running through the woods and creating too much noise. I do not understand why they are against the use of nylon or other synthetic fibers for the manufacture of nets. They make their networks manually from forest plants, which takes a very long time. Deadline for material:
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