The day i met a Yellow tail part 3#
I had left the tribe's people and was on my to a jungle opening the very same path I had use to accidentally find my way to tribe's people in the first place.
As i was walking towards my truck I missed my step and had broken one of my ankles and to make matters worse I had Fallon in quicksand so it became very difficult to pull myself out of the quicksand. Shortly after however to my surprise and shock an arrow with a rope shot across my shoulder and someone shouting "grab hold grab hold"
It turned out to be galis apparently she had been following me for some time all the way from the old nepelang tower. and believe me I was very glad that she had followed me so after helping me out of the quicksand she help to walk back to her camp while we started to make our way to the tribe's settlement we were met by two of the tribe's warriors apparently when galis had secretly left and started following me two warriors had been sent after her to keep her safe however this was done without her knowledge. So the warriors help me back to the settlement of the tribe, by the time we reach the tribe I was already getting a fever because of my broken ankle so I was treated and given a place to rest, I was so tired and exhausted by this time that I just fell asleep by the next time I woke up it was about twenty hours after and galis was right there crouching over sleeping on my stomach I was surprise that she had spend
her time nursing me back to health and keeping a watchful eye over me, she had taken a real interest in my wellbeing and I was truly appreciative of her for her caring personality.
I was grateful for the help and care so I began to speak with galis at length we enjoyed each other's company very much we would have our meals together and sometimes even sleep together in the cave.
I was off my legs and resting for a number days before I could move around with bamboo supports to help me walk,
the tribe's people were very happy to see me moving around I was a brother to some a son to others but I was treated as a friend to by them all.
It was as if was home among these sometimes strange and ancient people I truly begun to see first hand the life and struggle of everyday ins and out of these people.
I was amazed at how from the smallest to greatest could swim and even fish it was great indeed. As I made my way back to my cave to get some needed rest galis's uncle the Chief stopped me and asked me fallow him to his cave and it is then that he asked me to join with his daughter galis's only cousin who also was already married to four husbands.
I was of course very Happy to be worthy of such an offer
"Now I had already been familiar with the cultural and traditional customs of the nepelang ruling families and how the women are the ones that take more than one husband of the choices of the men in the tribe" so as you can understand I very grateful for such a privilege but I was given time to consider the offer.
So I returned to my dwelling place I could not sleep that whole night because I was worried about galis and her feelings towards me and even though I knew that someday I will eventually have to leave the tribe's people and go back to my work and my homeland I was still tormented by feelings of guilt about the whole matter,
because I truly was attached and attracted to galis only so even though the offer that the Chief made to me on behalf of his daughter was an honour.
I told galis about the offer her uncle made to me but as I was writing by words to her in the Sandy mud I could not help but feel guilty for even thinking about the offer so galis looks at me and tell to become her( half- arm ) which Expression means according to my understanding of the ancient writings she is asking me to become her temporary husband so now I am really confused but also happy because I am going to be with the one I am truly appreciate and care about even if it is only temporary so this according to nepelang tradition.
So I became her husband but I also had to became the husband of her cousin also which I did not mind because it was accepted by the Chief and the rest of the tribe. I was about to enter into the inner circle of the camp settlement I was greeted with songs and dancing of the tribe's warrior maidens that would normally go out with the men they went hunting or when the men warriors would go to patrol the boundaries of the tribe.
I got a chance to see once again to see the dancing and singing of the children which I was now seeing and enjoying a second time. But this time my face was painted in a different way because now I was a tribal husband to two different women and I was temporarily treated as royalty for the duration of my stay. I was about to take a walk around the village to look at some of sights I was not able to see before I my special position as a member of the Royal family,
It was great to get to see the treasure trove of cultural riches and hidden icons of the Royal families who went before galis's family. as an archeologist and anthropologist
I was truly excited to see and learn because this type things and information could not be found on any monuments or artifacts that has been excavated.
I was taken along to a flat mud room that was maintained by the women of the tribe it was apparently the place in witch their dead was buried and it was below surface of the ground witch also keep their families clean and free from infections by this time I had learned how to speak the spoken form of the nepelang language.
About three month had passed since I was healing from injury and It had come time for me leave and go back to my work, I was asked to allow some the the tribesmen to accompany me back to my truck located about one mile away from the tribe but asked the asked the chief to only allow the men to follow me about half way for fare that the tribe might be discovered by hustile outsiders and he agreed.
I was feeling very unsure about where my next adventure would take me but I knew that I always had a place in hearts of the amazing tribes people.
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