Long lakes shine in the jungle. We traveled one of these in dugout canoes, canoes paddled with machete-hewn oars, or poled in the shallows with bamboo.
Little League Baseball will likely have X's painted six feet apart in the gravel, each player issued their own bat and helmet, and dugouts likely closed for the season.
You see these extraordinarily clean people (who bathe twice a day in the river, and whose straight black hair is always freshly washed) paddling down the river in dugout canoes, hugging the banks.
And she told me that if the Mukissi spared me, my life, after spending four months in dugout canoes from the sources to the Okavango delta in Botswana, it meant it trusted me.