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<\/p>\nAn adventurer who visited one of the deadliest tribes in the world has revealed what they are really like.<\/p>\n
David Hoffmann spent 100 hours with the Waorani people, an uncontacted tribe set deep within the jungle in Ecuador. He explained how they are known for having the highest murder rate of any similar-sized group in the world \u2013 known to slaughter both their own kind and outsiders.<\/p>\n
But the explorer said he \u201cknew that there was way more to the story that I could ever have imagined\u201d. Waorani people rarely wear clothes, but they have a sophisticated understanding of the environment they live in, using plants to make surprisingly effective medicines and poisons.<\/p>\n
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David picked up an eye infection on his trip and asked the local witch doctor for help. \u201cI\u2019m going to the Shaman's medical office,\u201d he said in a YouTube video. \u201cHopefully he has something to cure my eye. They\u2019re saying \u2018breast milk\u2019 \u2013 I don't know about that I'm sure he has a lot of other things too.\u201d<\/p>\n
Every surface is crawling with bugs, which don\u2019t seem to bother the locals. \u201cThe amount of mosquitoes biting me right now, it's insane,\u201d David said. \u201cThey're crawling on my face \u2013 I have to cover myself with my little hoodie \u2026a never-ending amount of mosquitoes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The jungle is a dangerous place for the inexperienced, as \u201canywhere you look you see a spider or an animal that wants to kill you\u201d. He also gets to eat some of the wildlife, breaking open a twig to feast on tiny lemon ants. \u201cI think they bit me on the way down,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
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The tribespeople distil a poison called curare from huge jungle vines. Smeared onto the end of needle-sharp darts, it can paralyse any animals \u2013 or humans \u2013 it touches. The darts are fired from 5-foot blow-guns which have a range of up to 100 feet. <\/p>\n
David described how a Waorani hunter prepares his weapons. He explained: \u201cWhat he does is he puts the venom into a little pot. He heats it up and then it becomes like this nice thick tar-ish substance.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThen it gets his hundred darts that he puts into this container, he takes them all out and puts the venom on, then leaves them here so they dry out. Then he puts them back in then he gets his blow gun and he goes out to hunt. He\u2019s gonna hunt monkeys, wild boar \u2026basically anything you'll find in the wild \u2013 if it\u2019s edible he hunts it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Waorani had no contact with the outside world until the 1950s, and reportedly killed the first Christian missionaries that entered their territory. Even today, some offshoots of the tribe refuse any contact with outsiders.<\/p>\n
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