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1. Describe the event when the male Aucan and two women greet the five missionaries on Curaray River.

The missionaries offer three gifts including food and water and take the male Aucan, named George, on a brief plane ride to their village.

2. What are some of the gifts the missionaries give the Aucans?

The yellow ayamu (plane) drops machetes, cooking pots, ribbons, cloth, and food.

3. Why are the Aucans suspicious of the white men?

The Aucans fear white men may take their land, destroy their crops, and kill their people as other white men have done.

4. Why are the Indians curious about the white men?

The Aucans are curious about the white men because they are clothed, appear from the sky, eat strange food, carry magical water, and use strange writing implements.

5. What comes of the friendships between the Elliot and MacAllister families?

These friendships produce four Elliot-MacAllister marriages and thirty-six double cousins.

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