Paul Rosolie

And he was like, they don't have stones.

He's like, they don't.

So they don't know that water, they see water that they drink.

They don't know that water freezes because they've never seen it.

They don't know what the water boils because they don't have, they don't even make clay pots.

They just have their bamboo and their string.

And so they're living an incredibly simple life.

All of that, even a camera is a miracle to them.

You have to bend your mind to even understand how far back they are.

It's like looking into thousands of years ago, like Stone Age.

I think they view it as a demonic destructive force.

And when I show you the encounter that we had, we got a few takeaways.

We left with more questions than answers, but one of the things that they were able to communicate across the language barrier was, why are you cutting down the trees?

They don't like it.

So in order to tell you about that encounter, I think we need to orient people into where we're talking about.

We're talking about this river that runs through the western edge of the Amazon rainforest that you know well now after spending time there with me.

It's a high tributary of the Amazon rainforest where you have the main river channel and then smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller tributaries.

And the smaller you get, the less trafficked they are.

And so this river has remained wild through the centuries.

And even during the 90s, when there was a mahogany boom, where people went out for mahogany trees, there's very few people going up this river.