Lost Boy, Lost Girl by John Bul Dau

Author:John Bul Dau
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Published: 2010-10-26T04:00:00+00:00

Martha

Again we started packing. We had only been in Pochala a few months, but we had to leave, this time heading for Kapoeta, a large town near the border with Kenya that the SPLA also controlled. We weren’t sure if we would run into the militia, so once again we had to sneak away. For a very intense day and night we walked silently.

Soon we were in the territory of tribes I had never seen. Some had made scars on their bodies as a sign of beauty. Lots of people in Southern Sudan do that, but some of the married women here had stretched their bottom lips by piercing and weighting them, and the men had done the same things with their ears. We had never seen such long, long lips and ears before. What we ate, we got from trading with these local tribes. Some of them had no problem with us; some attacked us. One tribe even tricked us by first trading goats to us for some empty cooking oil cans we had, then sneaking up on us to steal their goats back. There was shooting, and some of my group was killed. It seemed that I was going to live around shooting and violence all my life.

I was traveling with hundreds of people all walking at all different speeds. Yar and we children were usually in the slow group. Tabitha was big enough now to walk on her own, but she was scared and crying a lot. Sometimes when it was time to move on again, she would say she didn’t want to keep going.

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