After we had been marching for two weeks, getting soaked by daily rains and living entirely on the (1) _tents___ we carried with us, we found footprints. Two people were (2) __ahead___ of us and travelling fast. We followed them. Each morning, when we (4) set__ off again after a night’s sleep, we found their tracks in the forest nearby and (6)realizethey had been watching us the (7)whole/entire
_____ evening. One night we (8) left_ gifts in the forest but they (9)hadn't not touched. We called out greetings (10) through_ the language of the river people but we did not know (11)whether
this unknown tribe were able to understand it. In any case there was no reply. We continued day by day until eventually we lost all sign of their movements. After three weeks we had almost given up hope of making contact. Then early one morning we got up to find seven men standing within a (17) _front_ yards of our tent. They were very small and wore nothing except a wide belt of green leaves (19) coveringthat around their waist. Two of the men had earrings and necklaces made of bones and one carried a women (20)with_ full of roots and fruit.