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for over 20 years I've been traveling to
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film peoples who live in the heart of
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nature far from the Civilized
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world so what may me come to Ral this
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noisy stifling little town in the south
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of Palawan
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Philippines
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because this is where tribal communities
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in Exile have settled among them the tud
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Batu a tribe from another era that has
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always lived in caves deep in the
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jungle how do they adapt to such a
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radical change of
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life the only way to find out is to meet
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them I carefully observe people's faces
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and clothes looking for the least little
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clue
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then here they come Barefoot and single
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file as if walking along a path in the
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forest one of them even carries a blow
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gun candy just candy just
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candy I decide to follow them to my
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surprise no one seems intimidated by the
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presence of of a
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camera like children who have been
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deprived for too long they all make a
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bee line for the
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candy their promade continues and along
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with it for me the funny feeling of
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being the Invisible Man but the to bat
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are too distracted they don't know where
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to look next it's true you can find
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anything and everything at the rale
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market no doubt that's why they're here
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Spellbound by such abundance these are
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pretty are they on
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sale and what about these they're
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expensive and these they're
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cheaper these must be in
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style not easy to resist not easy either
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to enclose feet like these in
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shoes
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is that it yes that's it really yes how
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much do you need only 500
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G at last a first glance perhaps to make
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me their
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witness there's more than 500 gr I'll
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give you a little more it's
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Christmas thank
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you the butcher is not very welcoming to
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say the least clients are judged by
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their looks and she obviously knows who
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these cents are I only know
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one they come from the top B tribe do
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you know how they live where they live
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they live in the mountains and they're
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very poor just look at them look at
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their clothes they've got nothing that's
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why they look so
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destitute don't go away I'm G to get
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something for
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you one of the family members is pulled
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aside I can tell something's up since
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everyone seems struck motionless Unsure
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how to
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react this is for you put it on okay
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it's going to look great on you take
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that off first it's going to suit you
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perfectly look look what is
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it it's a shirt put it on it's an
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expensive item it's very nice an
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American
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brand it's too big is it too wide it's a
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size
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five no it's the perfect size for you it
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really suits
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you the quality is excellent you won't
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get cold when you're up in the mountains
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it's thick you look great look over
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there the Americans are filming
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you keep it
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on take it off for
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now and this is for
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you this is much too big for me it looks
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great on
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you can I buy your blow gun
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the clothing salesman is only too happy
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to be filmed and he hasn't finished yet
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he continues making fun of the group now
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turning his attention to the man with a
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blow gun can I kill a pig with this I
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can really and what if I shoot a person
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with it could I kill him
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too so it really can kill
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huh Can I have an arrow is this where it
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goes is it dangerous it's
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scary wow nice shot all right bye got to
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go
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now
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good I can tell the touts bat two try to
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be like everybody else when they're in
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town but when it comes to Fading Into
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the crowd becoming Philippines citizens
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that seems pretty
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complicated I was very shocked by
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everything I witnessed at the market no
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matter what they do or where they go
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they're all stigmatized I'm not sure if
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it was my looks of compassion that moved
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them but in any event the tal Batu have
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agreed to let me follow them
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home
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eight people all from the same family
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live here in this modest home
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undoubtedly the culmination of their
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dream a roof rice and a little meat
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nothing could be more ordinary for
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millions of Philippines but surely not
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for
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them
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what you
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do
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that
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some rice there's lots take some more
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you want more I'll have
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more take some
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rice can I finish
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it
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I'm well aware that the fate of tribal
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communities is a thorny topic for the
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authorities to put it bluntly they'd
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rather not talk about them at all I also
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know that I'm not allowed to be here
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even less so with a camera but the owner
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who is not just anyone is
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out she's the one who bind dad works for
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even on Sundays the one they call
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Captain the representative of the
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village of
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ronon the other members of the family
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like cakan aren't paid they lend a hand
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sweep and weed the courtyard water the
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garden to Batu who have always lived in
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the middle of the Jungle are forced to
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pull out every last little blade of
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grass so this is it the El Dorado the
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prom promise of a better
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life for 2 years now rannis pilna and
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the others have lived on the fringes of
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a world that perhaps isn't their
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own one evening bad and cakan went to
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show me who they are that they haven't
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forgotten their past life that living in
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the jungle is not something you can take
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for
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granted better yet that hunting is an
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art it's as if the darts from their blow
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guns were shot Straight From Another
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World in a different
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era I learned that the Philippine
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government has paid homage to the TA
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Batu by exhibiting their culture and
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ancestral way of life in a
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museum that's all it took to turn their
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history into a
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myth these are people that uh you would
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appreciate life when when you see them
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how they live in the cave how they
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survive uh as in the urban area when we
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don't have our cell phones our gadgets
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we definitely you know very angry with
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the world because oh where did I put my
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cell phone but in that area no
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Communications no signals all natures
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and they live in the caves when there
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are typhoons when the the weather is not
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so
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good in 1978 the Western world was
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astounded to discover the existence of a
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previously unknown Tri tribe whoever
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could have imagined that human beings
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still lived in caves in the middle of an
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unexplored jungle on the island of
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Palawan the people of the rock had a
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name the taut
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Batu this people are the only tribes
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that is uh left by civilization that is
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far beyond reach of every human
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being
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I can't shake the image of those plastic
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figurines displayed in a cardboard
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cave now I can no longer look at the
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family the same way I know they've
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always lived in caves light years away
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from urban life and here they are
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weeding a Tarot field under the blazing
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sun
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here the tow bat are considered backward
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people think they're lazy and have no
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skills at all so they are only a lotted
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the most menial of tasks the things
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everyone else refuses to
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do the more I observe kalakan the more I
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have the impression of watching a bird
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turning circles in its cage
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every evening the same ritual and the
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same boredom and The NeverEnding
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discussions in which everybody still
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wonders what they're doing here look at
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us we can't even write we don't know how
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to write it's true we can't write we
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don't know how to speak Tagalog right
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not even
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Tagalog it would be better if the
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children could go to
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school they'd be able to explain all
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sorts of things to us right this that
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and the other thing at least the
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children that's right at least the
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children right that would be so
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great like many families the TA batsu
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dream of being able to send their
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children to school they've sacrificed
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everything for this but nothing has
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turned out as planned their faces all
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seem worn and marked by the past 2 years
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spent in
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ronon when I came here I didn't know
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where to go I thought I was going to
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find someone to hire me but if no one
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hires me how am I going to feed my
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family I feel alone here and I don't
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sleep well I hear the noise of the
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cars back home it's not as
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noisy
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I'm not afraid to live in the city the
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only difference is I didn't grow up
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here bad doesn't say anything yet I
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understand that the life of the taut
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Batu has become unbearable there that it
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can't last that everything could
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dramatically
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change it's true for me too when I'm
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here I can't stop thinking about my life
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in the mountains so we've decided to go
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back there to live back to the
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mountains
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go back to live in the
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mountains that was in the
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cards but I still find it hard to
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believe if merely talking about their
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troubles isn't enough for the T Batu and
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they really do decide to leave the city
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behind I will have to choose either
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leave the Philippines or else try to go
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along with
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them
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with their scheduled return to the
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Jungle the hope for a better life goes
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up in smoke and along with it the dreams
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of money school for the children and the
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free health
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clinic a morning like any other will
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almost in a heavy silence the taot Patu
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put out the fire of their former life
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and prepare to
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leave but half of the family are missing
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could bind dad the only one who earns
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money be obliged to stay
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behind no one is keeping us from
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leaving if we want to we can take our
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things and head back to our caves
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tomorrow that's right
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tomorrow but we need
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money we can't afford to buy certain
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things actually I get sick a lot because
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of how difficult the work is but I
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really need to work hard to put up with
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the sun's Heat
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that way I can buy clothes and
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everything we
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need I've been able to buy all that
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since I've been working
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here even if my house is in the state it
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is even if my wife gets sick I can
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easily take her to the medical
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center when we're in the mountains in
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our
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caves the distance makes it hard to get
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to the medical
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center are you happy or sad to live
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here
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ornes doesn't answer she's made her
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choice too she's not going
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back over the days it has become clear
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that the two sisters were inseparable
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but today each of them has chosen her
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own path foress the city for ranis the
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mountains and
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jungle
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I came to Palawan to discover the T
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batu's urban life and now here they are
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heading back home up there in the
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mountains there's no time to mull it
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over I decide to follow them turning a
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deaf ear to the museum administrator's
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warnings if you do not plan your trip
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going there it's very hard very
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difficult the train is so difficult so
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tricky
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so treacherous so you know lot of
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dangers going
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there the danger everyone's terrified of
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is called malaria the last three
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filmmakers who set foot here didn't
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survive I've also heard about groups of
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rebels who had best be
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avoided not to mention the insects
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scorpions and
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snakes
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as we enter the tall trees of the forest
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and hear the first heady cries of the
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cicas I have no idea what lies ahead
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what compensation I may find or what
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sacrifice I may have to make by
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venturing here all I know is that this
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journey to the edge of the world will
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make its mark
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we've been walking for hours now soon
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we'll be obliged to stop before
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nightfalls and yet I've yet to seen any
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sign of a cave or shelter something
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doesn't seem
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right in theory we should have reached
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singnapan Valley where the tow bat have'
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always lived but nothing about this
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deeply embanked River bed gives even a
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hint of being inhabited so where can we
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be if there are caves around here no
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one's ever told me about
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them I got a cut it looks deep you're
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right there's a cut on the side right
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it's deep and it's already infected yes
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there's
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P how can they walk Barefoot in the
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forest the least little scratch can
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easily become infected it needs to be
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treated
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quickly to remove a splinter a wooden
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blade seems to work better than the
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blade of a
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knife you're right I see it I'll try to
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get it
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out hope it's not
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serious
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the wind has suddenly picked up and with
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it the promise of rain and
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storms this is no doubt why the family
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has decided to build a
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shelter
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the heat and humidity are unbearable if
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it's over 40° C but that doesn't stop
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the tth batsu from working hard they
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find everything they need right at their
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feet in the city they're considered good
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for nothing but in the jungle it's a
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different story I'm fascinated by their
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knowledge of the forest their movements
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seem innate their feet don't get caught
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in the vines they don't slip they don't
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trip
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they don't simply live in the forest
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they are the
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forest
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can you show me how to do
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it can you do it
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again careful you're going to strangle
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me make it tighter like that like this
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yes what like
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that is this right go on
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pull see I did it sure it's
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easy a Hut in the jungle it seems
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natural to the T Batu but to me it's
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nothing short of
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amazing
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at Daybreak the T Batu set off once more
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it's impossible to know where they're
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going all I do know is that once again
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we shall confront the jungle and climb
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mountains whether we climb or descend
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our pace is steady eni and inao are the
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first two words in Palawan I learn up
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and down and patun of course
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Waits
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as we go on the luxuriant jungle gives
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way to Cliffs and razor sharp
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rocks gradually we approach the heart of
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the
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mountain with rannis Leading The Way
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with her flashlight the TA bat suddenly
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leave the light of day behind and slip
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into the darkness of a cave
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this time I have no choice I blindly
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follow along behind kalakan but the
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tunnel gets narrower and we can't even
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stand up anymore where in the world are
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we
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who has laid eyes on this spot this
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Monumental Cathedral buried beneath the
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mountain even the t bat appear to be
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lost they stop hesitate then head back
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the way we
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came it seems impossible not to lose our
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bearings in this endless
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Labyrinth
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as we emerge in the dazzling sunlight I
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realized that instead of going around
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the mountain we've just passed through
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it the climb seems
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endless where in the world are they
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going I still can't spot anything that
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can be used to
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shelter
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I turn back and suddenly the to Batu
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have once again disappeared through a
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tiny
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crack the first trace of human presence
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a platform attached to the side of a
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cliff no doubt about it this time we've
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made
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it just then I'm astounded to see the
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cave is already inhabited three adults
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and three children all live in this
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narrow little room where they can barely
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stand up rannis p aito and calak are
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reunited with their family because this
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place is nothing less than their
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home near the entrance to the cave sits
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an old man who was practically naked who
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is he it's impossible to catch his
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[Music]
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eye I find myself plunged into a
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different time a distant era when all
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our ancestors still lived in
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caves the family sets off again wending
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their way into another part of the cave
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I have to admit I'm totally
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disorientated this time they settle in
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and for the first time ever I see ranis
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smile
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a and pilna climb up a wobbly platform
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that looks like it's been there forever
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I suppose this is where they're going to
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sleep the old man from the entrance has
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joined us but continues to turn his back
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to
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me the minute slowly slip by around a
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campfire that protects us from
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mosquitoes finally we see his face lit
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by the Flames the old man is called Ido
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he's the head of the family he's also
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the uncle of bad who along with his wife
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decided not to return here to
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live inside the cave a Chasm several
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meters deep gapes down into the bowels
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of the
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earth I have to admit it's very
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unnerving you'd have to be born here not
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to be afraid of
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falling I've never left
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here I was born here and never once have
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I left this cave
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behind really
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never I've never left this
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place I go down the mountains
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sometimes but I never Venture far from
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here it's impossible for me to lead
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these mountains it's where I grew up
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here in the jungle your children too yes
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my children too all my children not just
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me but all of
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us we all grew up here on this land in
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this
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cave tell them what you
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want don't you want to say anything
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anything she's too shy to
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talk I'm happy here who wouldn't
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be this is the cave of our
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ancestors we're all
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happy if we lived outside the cave we
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would have no place to protect
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us
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it's dangerous to live in the jungle
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there are lots of snakes but inside the
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cave there's no
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danger from here it's easier to
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understand how no Outsiders have ever
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managed to discover the entrance to the
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cave by sheer accident I've stumbled out
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of the myth and into reality Ido has
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never left his cave the proof that taut
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batsu still live hidden in the belly of
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the mountains of
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bwan
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this morning the entire family has
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gathered to
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fish everyone has their own technique
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for Danilo Ido son-in-law it's a hoop
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net leaves and rocks to channel the
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river and guide the fish into the
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traps for the time being aito and roel
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are busy inspecting the
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Rocks Ido gathers crabs as if he were
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plucking flowers from a
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garden I get the feeling he doesn't even
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look for them he already knows where
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they are
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for
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the engineuity of the taot Batu is
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inexhaustible they even make wooden
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harpoons which work pretty
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well tomalin idido's granddaughter will
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most likely never attend any school
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other than that of
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[Music]
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life
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it's stifling hot but the water is ice
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cold for the first time I can tell AO
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and the others truly feel at home
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peaceful appeased in harmony with their
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way of
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life as in my own childhood memories
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fishing is a special time you reach for
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your grandfather's hand and he helps you
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grow these moments of Innocence seem so
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insignificant but leave deep memories
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that last even into
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adulthood
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the T Batu have returned to their
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shelter in the Rocks but the mood has
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shifted
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radically I can tell something's
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wrong and ranice is the first to open up
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how can we not feel sad our friends
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stayed behind because we were always
00:35:03
together the eight of us and they stayed
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behind of course we're
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sad it's hard because some of us have
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stayed behind if we were all here we'd
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be happy right if everyone were here
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then we'd really be very happy but they
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decided to stay in the city what can you
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do yes it was their decision to stay
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there
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we came back to live in the
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mountains what would we go to the city
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for I feel happy I've welcomed my
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brothers and
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sisters it's good that we're together
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once more here in the
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mountains I don't want to go live in the
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city even if there are also good
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B there like here in the
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[Music]
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mountains today I go hunting along with
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aito and his friend
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Mal
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it's not yet fruit season and there are
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no monkeys in the
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forest big games such as deer and wild
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boar have almost entirely disappeared
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I'm told foreigners come to hunt here
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with their rifles and that the forest is
00:36:42
also being cut
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down so the hunter set off in search of
00:36:49
smaller prey that is much trickier to
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[Music]
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catch
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[Music]
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I think I got it it must be over there
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wait I'll go
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see
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here's our dinner you're
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right but it's not enough no it's noon
00:37:41
it's already
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late look up there there's more and more
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of
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them
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I realized that the taot Batu have such
00:38:08
intimate knowledge of the forest that
00:38:10
they're able to make the most inventive
00:38:11
traps a long sharpened stem coated in
00:38:14
sticky fragrant sap is used to attract
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birds but then they still have to to
00:38:26
climb up to the Treetops to position the
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Trap over 40 m
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[Music]
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High
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[Music]
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Ido and cakan Hunt
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underground I noticed dozens of drawings
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on the cave walls odd little figures
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with owl
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heads could this be a hidden treasure no
00:39:21
one has laid eyes on
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before all I'm told is that the have
00:39:26
been there for a long
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[Music]
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time using long Rattan branches tipped
00:39:44
with thorns the hunters launch into a
00:39:47
curious
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performance I think there are a lot of
00:39:52
them that
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way oh there there there there
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H it's
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gone keep your eyes
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peeled we need to look
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[Music]
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everywhere there
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there there's loads of them there go on
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go
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on the bat's ultrasound is very useful
00:40:28
for navigating in the
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dark but since the Trap is in constant
00:40:34
motion it's impossible for the bats to
00:40:36
detect it wait H there's only
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one what I see is simply
00:40:45
incredible ah it's biting me it's biting
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me watch out there's
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another it's over
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there
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Miss El will never know that as I
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watched him my mind immediately jumped
00:41:20
to the lighter buried in my pocket I'm
00:41:23
very impressed by what I witness and
00:41:25
above all extreme
00:41:30
moved when Ido moves on from this world
00:41:33
a chapter in human history will be
00:41:34
closed
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[Music]
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forever with each passing second the
00:41:44
talot Batu prove the wealth and range of
00:41:46
the knowledge that belongs solely to
00:41:47
them back in the city none of this is
00:41:50
worth a
00:41:55
thing
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in the caves they know bats are an
00:41:59
indispensable source of nourishment for
00:42:00
the tribe this is probably what has
00:42:03
allowed them to survive and for so
00:42:08
long even if there's not much to eat
00:42:11
kakan and Ido adore grilled bat
00:42:15
and like all people of the rock it's
00:42:18
what they like
00:42:21
best today is my lucky day nobody offers
00:42:24
me a taste
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foro and Mal it's time to fetch the
00:42:43
traps before the sun goes
00:42:55
down
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up there in the trees I witness a
00:43:02
rebirth young AO so forlorn in the city
00:43:06
is so visibly happy to be
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[Music]
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there Mal is smiling too since today's
00:43:21
hunt was pretty
00:43:25
successful
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[Music]
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this will be enough we're going to be
00:43:43
able to bring back a meal we just need
00:43:45
to take the good
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[Music]
00:43:55
pieces
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now what do we do we've got
00:44:06
enough look it's stuck to my
00:44:08
finger it's really sticky it sure
00:44:25
is
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[Applause]
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with each passing day I observe the
00:44:46
shortage of food that is a harsh reality
00:44:48
the T Patu have no Reserve stored up and
00:44:51
in spite of all their efforts they
00:44:53
struggle to
00:44:54
survive
00:44:58
who wouldn't be worried about not having
00:44:59
enough to eat of course we're afraid of
00:45:05
that don't you
00:45:08
agree of course we think about it we
00:45:11
have just enough food we really need to
00:45:13
go out and look to make sure we have
00:45:15
enough for meals we've got just enough
00:45:17
man right just enough we also have to
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find
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meat that's what we
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do
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the children are the first to
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[Music]
00:45:37
suffer I feel pain here does it
00:45:44
hurt to fall ill or get injured here is
00:45:47
a serious
00:45:49
matter today two neighboring families
00:45:51
have come to see Ido with no hospital or
00:45:54
clinic nearby their only choice is to
00:45:57
come
00:45:58
here the cave becomes a makeshift
00:46:01
doctor's office where I discover a
00:46:03
rather special
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practitioner I tell you can you turn
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[Music]
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over
00:46:39
I pray God for
00:46:43
help I ask him to give me the strength
00:46:46
to help those who
00:46:50
suffer I ask God to grant us good
00:46:54
health
00:46:57
so we may provide for our
00:46:59
needs without the grace of God there'd
00:47:02
be no
00:47:06
cave unfinished they are well now they
00:47:11
should feel
00:47:17
better Ido is a highly respected Shaman
00:47:20
perhaps the last in his
00:47:22
community I was taught to heal the sick
00:47:25
first by my grandparents and then by my
00:47:37
father I tried to teach my children but
00:47:39
they couldn't keep
00:47:41
up they didn't want to
00:47:54
learn
00:47:56
it leaves are also medicinal do I cut it
00:47:58
here yeah right
00:48:02
there is this how I do it yes you must
00:48:04
remove the
00:48:10
Box ah here's
00:48:14
one at last Ido the shaman can pass on
00:48:17
his knowledge AO never went to school
00:48:20
but here he's a model student he wants
00:48:22
to learn all the secrets of the forest
00:48:24
plants
00:48:27
first you rinse
00:48:29
it then you put it in a pot and boil it
00:48:33
when it starts to boil I breathe it in
00:48:36
you inhale the steam
00:48:40
deeply it reduces fatigue and it's good
00:48:43
medicine for the lungs got it take this
00:48:47
it's
00:48:49
anuran you take a leaf roll it in your
00:48:51
hands to release the sap then you rub it
00:48:54
here right here
00:48:57
yes can I see it because the lungs and
00:49:00
intestines are in this area the
00:49:02
intestines got
00:49:03
it thank
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you
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this one's called baget baget bag okay
00:49:35
what parts do we use
00:49:36
here you need to take the stem and Roots
00:49:40
I
00:49:41
see you need to pull the baggot baggot
00:49:43
out by the roots it's good for heart
00:49:50
disease an explosion followed by a
00:49:53
strong smell of powder I realiz realized
00:49:55
the sound is completely unfamiliar to
00:49:57
Ido and
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[Music]
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naito yes I was scared we were all
00:50:13
scared kalakan pilna Rines and the
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[Music]
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others by some miracle no one was hurt
00:50:26
only a scar a crater 10 m wide not far
00:50:29
from the
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[Music]
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cave who was the bomb meant for the to
00:50:36
Batu to intimidate them or for The
00:50:38
Outsiders that no one wants to see
00:50:41
here I know it's not safe for me anymore
00:50:44
I have no choice but to leave the jungle
00:50:46
distressed and
00:50:50
traumatized but the to Batu are going to
00:50:52
stay because they don't know where else
00:50:54
to go and and because this final Refuge
00:50:56
is their home until proven
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[Music]
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otherwise
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think
