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Hire carriers at central highland villages such as Tiom and Ilaga. For the longer treks you might need 20 or more. Bear in mind, the difference between you and them is immense. They are naked, build and eat only what they need, speak a different language, walk differently, even urinate differently. You are pink-skinned, dressed up in clothes, your equipment comes out of packs and your food out of tins. Use matches, steel axeheads, salt, razors, raincoats, mirrors, watches, whetstones, palmfulls of colored beads, and 100 rupiah notes plus the cost of their food as payment. A headman for the party, acting as arbitrator and guide, should be paid extra. Always remember the payback system'; whatever is given to you, you must give something in return- a steel axe head for a pig, some beads for a service, etc. Don't ever overpay or you'll bring about a devaluation and play havoc with the local economy. You'll find it could be difficult to get porters for mountain trekking because they're afraid of leaving their own village and immediate surroundings. It's often taboo for them to climb a mountain, believing that it will fall down and crush them; it's also the forbidder home of ancestors. Never force carriers to walk later than they think because this could cause disturbances and desertion as well as over-exposure to all if caught in heavy cold rain. Mountain Irianese know best where good shelter and plentiful firewood can be found. They can build huts from tree trunks and branches within minutes and !fight tires without matches in complete darkness with soaking wet wood. Irianese are proud people, not servants. They won't wait on you hand and foot. A contract is made at the start for them to carry so much for so long to such and such a place for an agreed pay ment and that's that. Small boys and young men will fetch water, light fires, cook breakfast. erect tents, but not the older men river-crossings: Irianese cross rivers by throwing rocks in them to make better footholds in the strong currents. They get across larger rivers by simply cutting down trees and letting them crash over them. With an axe as the only tool they can build a crazily constructed bridge out of rattan and branches in only 30 minutes strong enough to hol+ 20 people on it at once. Sometimes a bridge is just a single strand of rattan with two strands somewhat higher to serve as hand ropes. For suspension bridges an arrow shoots the first Dana fibre across, then more lines are hauled across until rivers up to 60 m wide are spanned. A high scaffold is first mounted like on a high diving board. Swaying violently, the middle of the bridge almost touches the river. Then it's like climbing up a mountain.