Demarcation Diaries
10 September 2001
It is pium o'clock onboard the Zumbi and we are putting up a
sign at position number seven on the Canaca river.
The Deni and the people of OPAN are very amazing. As soon as
we arrive at each position they jump out of the boat and into
the forest, clean an area, climb the trees and put up the signs.
We can only try to keep up with them and try to get some pictures
(I cannot imagine what it would be like without them).
At one of the positions, Samuel, full of energy and inspiration,
decided to follow their rhythm and jumped out of the boat and
started to cut branches like a machine and ....he cut the mooring
line. No comments.
The PIUMS are just eating us slowly. Petros and Samuel are suffering
mutations, their bodies are swelling and I am not sure how is
this going to finish.
When he saw me going crazy from the piums, Cuama, the oldest
of the Deni, asked me if we don't have piums in my house because
somebody had also told him that they don't have piums in Manaus....
I couldn't answer because just then a pium flew into my mouth.
Cuama probably cannot imagine a world free of them
At the rate we are going we will finish with the signs tomorrow
so we need supplies.
We are receiving e-mail without problems, but we need Prometazine
25 mg (fenergan) tablets. We have two patients at the moment on
drugs.
Thats all for now.
-Cuniua Team
(Paula, Samuel and Petros)
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