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Only the next day could the journey be resumed to sail again along the broad
river after the ‘reconditioning’ our physical and spiritual outer-and-inner men. The
team could not depart in the morning, not only due to the problem of getting up, but
also the special problem created by the above mentioned WC. As a result some of our
people preferred to keep and carry with them the ‘biological waste’ supposed to be
dumped out at the WC and hoping, of course, there would be better places for the
dumping at Wandouw.
Other important things had still to be done, meeting and reporting our visit to
the local military station which acted like an immigration office as well. Finally NJE
team departed the nearest village. After sailing for some times the boat turned aside
and crossed a very wide lake-like area full of water and long weeds. Two rather big
and long speedboats were moving and ‘breaking through’ the lake of weeds. The first
carried our team while the second the military ‘platoon’ (10-12 personnels) with their
loaded heavy arms. The two speedboats moved one after the other and maintained
the distance quite accurately. In other words, our team was well escorted by the
military men with the ready-for-use guns (this raised a question: “what could have
been wrong with the trip?”). At least 2 hours were needed just to cross the large
lake-and-weed area until arriving at Wandouw. This mystery of the heavily-guarded
NJE’s team remained unanswered until we finally arrived at Wandouw and were
greeted with special singings of local songs with the musics. All local leaders, pastors
and evangelists and their congregations had already gathered in this ‘small island’
village.

At Wandouw village: the meeting, facilities and crusades.
In the courtesy meeting that late afternoon it became distinct that the heavy
guarding by the military men was intended to protect NJE team from the real threat
of potential attacks by a group of large crocodiles which lived and operated in the
large river and its banks especially in the lake-and-weed area. The real truth was we
had just passed ‘successfully’ the river, swampy areas and lake-and-weed area which
contained (so) many large crocodiles (nobody in the world knows their number) i.e.
the PNG jungle crocodiles or jungle-river alligators. Wow…………! (And we still had
to pass their areas again for going home). The situation we had faced was due to
‘incorrect timing’ because NJE team had entered this area at the end of the rainy
season (April 2017).