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We went to get honey, as a result of Parojnai had already discovered a tree with honey. Amajane [their eldest son] and I noticed a bulldozer. We noticed the bulldozer and we went close to, irrespective of if the cojñone killed us, we didn’t care in the event that they killed us.
There we noticed a bit home [this was actually a mobile trailer for a Paraguayan bulldozer-driver]. Amajane mentioned to us, ‘Keep right here, whereas I am going and discover out what the cojñone are like, whether it is doable to contact them’. At the moment we had no information of how the cojñone have been. When he got here again Amajane mentioned to us, ‘I noticed some cojñone however I acquired scared and I couldn’t go nearer.’
Parojnai requested me if I used to be petrified of the cojñone or not. I answered, ‘I’m not scared, I’m going to get nearer to them.
Berui [their second-eldest son] mentioned: ‘I’m going with you too.’ However I mentioned to Berui, ‘I don’t need you to return with us. If the cojñone kill us, you’ll take care of your little brothers [Tocoi and Aripei] and reside with them. Berui obeyed and he stayed together with his little brothers. We went alongside the aspect of a street, in the direction of the cojñone.
We noticed the home of the cojñone. Once we acquired to the little home Parojnai shouted, ‘I’m Parojnai’. However it appeared as if no person was in the home. In that second Amajane shouted additionally, ‘My title is Amajane. I haven’t come to kill you.’
Parojnai saved shouting, ‘I’m Parojnai’, and immediately a cojñoi got here out and I noticed what the cojñone are like; I noticed that they’re folks like us. I advised him once more, ‘We don’t come to kill you, reasonably we wish to reside with you.’
The person mentioned ‘Eha, eha, eha’ and I observed that he was very scared. He saved shifting his head and searching behind himself, it appeared like he needed to run. He stepped again and I mentioned to him, ‘There’s no cause to run, we’re not going to kill you, we’re good folks.’
Amajane made indicators to him to return nearer. When he got here nearer I hugged him with one arm and Parojnai hugged him on the opposite aspect, and I mentioned to him, ‘Sit right here’. I mentioned, ‘Don’t be afraid of us’ and I shouted to Parojnai, ‘You maintain him too, we don’t need him to depart once more’, and at all times with the identical phrases I mentioned to him, ‘Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid of us, we’re good folks’. The person saved repeating, ‘Eha, Eha, Eha’.
I saved repeating to him ‘Don’t be afraid’. The cojñoi held one thing in his hand [a shotgun] and I requested Parojnai, ‘What’s it that he has in his hand?’ and Parojnai answered, ‘It’s a weapon’. And I mentioned to the cojñoi, ‘Don’t be afraid of us, carry us one thing to eat, we’re hungry’. The cojñoi went into the little home and introduced a plate stuffed with biscuits and he ate the biscuits in entrance of us. I attempted too, however I didn’t like them.
The person handed the biscuits round and laughed, ‘hello, hello, hello’, and he introduced some stew on one other plate. Identical to the biscuits, he ate it in entrance of us, I additionally tried it, and I didn’t prefer it.
Parojnai mentioned, ‘Deliver us water, I’m thirsty, I wish to drink water’. We noticed a bucket and there was water inside and we drank. Amajane arrived simply once we had already discovered water from the cojñoi. Amajane was afraid of the water and poured it out. I mentioned to him, ‘You shouldn’t pour out the water.’
The cojnoi went into his little home and introduced out a weapon. Amajane and his father stayed beside this man for the entire time, they adopted him step-by-step. Abruptly, he shot within the air.
I acquired scared, pondering that he was capturing at my son and my husband. And I shouted, ‘Heeee’ out of worry, and immediately the person took off his shirt and he handed me his shirt, laughing. After which I went to present him a necklace of purucode [black seeds] and I put it round his neck. Parojnai additionally introduced out a necklace of purucode and he additionally put it round his neck.
In photographs taken the subsequent day, Ibore could be seen carrying the person’s purple soccer shirt.
Parojnai, Ibore and their youngsters now reside in a small Ayoreo group on the sting of the forest. Parojnai contracted flu and tuberculosis quickly after contact, and nonetheless suffers the consequences.
