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Negotiating the Feroelasie Falls, biggest on the Saramacca; a large canoe laden to the gunnels with cargo was stuck on the rocks. Stopping to help, the two crews were only just able to free it. We passengers were with good reason, forbidden to assist. Rocking it violently to set it free, the over weighted craft suddenly bounded loose. One of the lads then had to very quickly snatch his leg out from underneath. Luckily he did. Had he not, it would have been dragged under and crushed terribly. There are no hospitals out here; just mission clinics open only to those compliant villages willing to submit to proselytizing representatives of Christ’s message of universal charity. But the recalcitrant inhabitants of Yao Yao cling proudly still to their age old animism and decline Christ’s clamorous invitation, so there would have been no mercy dash or clean hospital bed waiting that nifty young lad had he not been so nimble footed!
Village Baker - YauYau |
