Summary (Masters of Fire) Hazen learns the traditions culture of the Saramaccas, one of six maroon ('bush nigger') tribes in Suriname, descendants of escaped slaves who fled during Dutch colonial from plantations to the Amazonian interior jungle. He seeks to earn an invitation to an impending 'fire dance', an elaborate tradition of the villagers 'inspited by wood spirits'. An old man teaches him to make a canoe, the champion warrior learns him about hunting with an ancestral flint and arranges to meet him far away. He sets out thereto alone on the Suriname river and later into the forest, aware of venomous creatures, constrictors and piranhas. He dodges dangers like snakes or army ants, makes fire, sets a fish trap in a pool and crosses the dense forest. He join the hunter to shoot an agouti for the festival. They return in time with their offerings, to the chief's satisfaction.

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