-Caveat Lector- --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Tom Wheeler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, You Must Be Going By Peter Carlson Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, November 7, 2000; Page C02 Maybe I'm a sick puppy but I was thrilled to learn that there is at least one tropical island left on this beleaguered planet where naked, unconquered natives still greet anthropologists and other emissaries of our so-called civilization with a barrage of arrows. It is North Sentinel Island, a tiny speck in the Indian Ocean. Technically it's owned by India but--as Adam Goodheart explains in an extraordinary story in the autumn issue of American Scholar--nobody has conquered the inhabitants. Somehow, the Sentinelese understand what American Indians learned too late: Give these outsiders an inch of land and they'll steal everything. Perhaps they acquired their distaste for foreigners in 1858, when the British settled Great Andaman Island, 30 miles away, and promptly set up that characteristic bastion of Western civilization--a penal colony. In 1867, a merchant ship wrecked on the reef near North Sentinel Island and survivors made their way to shore, only to be driven off by small naked men firing arrows. In 1896, a convict escaped from the penal colony on a raft and landed on the beach at North Sentinel. A few days later a search party found his body festooned with arrows. "After this," Goodheart writes dryly, "the island was left alone for nearly a century." In 1974, outsiders arrived again, this time in the form of a boat filled with documentary filmmakers, anthropologists, a National Geographic photographer and some armed cops. Approaching the island, they saw natives emerge from the woods. "The anthropologists made friendly gestures," Goodheart writes. "The Sentinelese responded with a hail of arrows." The outsiders landed their dinghy out of arrow range, dropped some cheap trinkets on the beach and retreated offshore to observe the natives' reaction. "The natives' reaction was to fire more arrows, one of which hit the film director in the left thigh," Goodheart writes. "The man who had shot the film director was observed laughing proudly." And so it went. Occasionally some brave or foolish outsiders would approach the island and drop off some gifts--usually coconuts--only to be driven off by arrows. Finally, in 1991, a group of Indian officials managed to land on the island and hand out coconuts without being shot, inspiring the Andaman Island newspaper to run a story headlined: "First Friendly Contact With Sentinelese." But the natives made it very clear that--as their lawyer might put it if they had a lawyer--acceptance of free coconuts in no way implies acceptance of visitors. And soon the visits stopped. Goodheart, a Washington writer, learned the bare bones of this tale while browsing the Internet. Fascinated, he followed the story to India, where he interviewed an anthropologist who'd briefly met the Sentinelese, then to Grand Andaman, where he observed the pathetic fate of the natives there, and finally to a small boat off the coast of North Sentinel Island, where he watched a few Sentinelese on the shore. "One of them was holding something long and thin," he writes. Maybe it was a spear. Maybe a bow. Goodheart was smart enough--and, yes, goodhearted enough--not to try and find out. His long, superbly written story is fascinating. Read and enjoy it but please, don't go hustling off to North Sentinel Island to pester the natives. 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