As we began working on this conclusion, the following letter arrived from Godfried. It was written from Wewak where he had once again returned to live. We print it here in translation, with his permission:

Dear Sister Deborah,

Here now I write to tell you about our father Andrew Tambwi Yorondu. Yes Deborah and Freddy, father died on October 5, 1988. I will write the story of his death soon but I wish to tell you that it was not a good death. All the elder men of Chambri ensorcelled him and he died. A death like his was not an ordinary death. He is gone.

In April I received the K20 you sent me along with the trousers. About the new cassette recorder, I received it and am using it. Yes, sister, and in-law, Freddy, everything that you have sent me I have gotten. So do not worry about them. I am using the recorder to collect stories to send you … I would like a camera so I can send you pictures of all the big ceremonies that will be held at Christmas. To commemorate father's death, there will be a ceremony of the fish that you two have not seen; also, two ancestral crocodiles, Ilasone and Pangasone, will also be invoked … It will cost me a lot of money, about K600. I must buy a pig and make all the presentations in father's name.