How to Walk a Puma (20 page)
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Authors: Peter Allison
Many of the older Huaorani dress traditionally most days, despite having access to modern clothing.
I kept a diary for the first time in twenty years while in Yasuni National Park with the Huaorani, and kept it despite the moulding humidity and occasional interruptions, like this Borer beetle that fell from the thatch onto the page.
A Dwarf Caiman, innocuous as it never grows to more than two metres. I was very happy to see it, but more than anything I wanted to see a jaguar.
The longest blowdarts in the Amazon are made by the Huaorani, but are meant to shoot things above them, such as birds or monkeys, and are too heavy to hold straight in front of you as I am attempting here.
Otobo holds a lantern bug, maybe wondering if his wife will believe the Kichwa legend about them.
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Map and illustrations by Guy Holt
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