of explaining and a lot of being nice an amiable and nonaggressive in order to get through in one piece. bill: you did negotiating to make that happen. did you ever feel at one point, the be it by way of animal or human being, that you were the other going to be able to pull this stuff. at one point i saw my life was definitely at risk and we used the hf radio system installed in the terrorist times to call ahead to the next community, to let them know we were coming straight and the indigenous community and, an indian community said if he gringo came through, you should kill him and we came through the plan and my expedition partner, a peruvian and we were going to walk along the sand bank island and bypass the community and walk back onto the land once we went past them and they saw us and essentially when we got to the end of the island, he said