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Tapescript (Ex. 2A.)
Part 1
Jennifer Currie: John Groom knows he is a lucky man. With several years of survival
training under his belt, he felt the most dangerous thing he might encounter trekking in
Ecuadors Amazonian rainforest with a group of London students was a poisonous snake.
To be faced with three members of the Tagaeri, one of the Amazons fiercest tribes, was
something no training could have prepared him for.
John Groom: I had split off from the group to go and purify some water, when I was
approached by three Tagaeri. The tribesmen were naked, save for a piece of cloth around
their waist, and they all carried spears with serrated edges.
The older Tagaeri took the spears from the two younger men and stuck them in the ground.
With one hand he pointed in the direction we had come into the jungle. He used his other to
jab his own spear into my thigh. It was definitely a warning to us to leave the area.
I мейд my way back to the group through the fast-gathering gloom.
Sheer adrenalin kept me going. When I got back to the others, our Ecuadorian guide thought
we should vacate the area immediately. It took only two hours to return to the main camp - a trio
that had taken four daylight hours. We had to navigate our way through dense jungle,
classic snake country, in the dark. Someone must have been looking after us that night - no
one of us was bitten.

Tapescript (Ex. 2B)
Part 2
Jennifer Currie
Groom, a science research officer with the Royal Navy accompanied a group of eight
students from the University of London to Ecuadors Yashini National Park in June. They
were going on a ten-week research project to assess the impact of the oil industry and a
rise in tourism there. Today Groom knows how lucky he was to escape with a minor leg
wound. In July, 1987, Monsignor Lebaca, the Bishop of Coca was commissioned to ask the
Tagaeri if they would consider leaving the area before the oil companies moved in to explore
for oil. The Bishop and Sister Ines Arango were dropped into a clearing by a helicopter and
warmly welcomed by the tribe.
When the helicopter returned days later to collect its passengers, the pilot found the bishops
naked body pinned down in the clearing by 17 spears decorated with feathers. Sister Arangos
body was found in a similar condition.
John Groom: We have had the dubious honour of meeting the Tagaeri and of walking away.
It is important to understand that this warning is a big change in the way they behave. They
have been on the run for a long time, and perhaps they are tired of being persecuted.
I think their warning was a way of showing us that they arc not savages and that they
just want to be left alone.