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3A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2018 Isolated tribesmen kill an American adventurer on remote Indian island Chau went to high school in Vancouver By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI — An Amer- ican adventurer who kayaked to a remote Indian island pop- ulated by a tribe known for shooting at outsiders with bows and arrows has been killed, police said Wednesday. Officials said they were work- ing with anthropologists to recover the body. Dependera Pathak, direc- tor-general of police on India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands, said seven fishermen have been arrested for helping the American reach North Sen- tinel Island. The Sentinelese people are resistant to outsid- ers and often attack anyone who comes near, and visits to the island are heavily restricted by the government. Pathak identified the Amer- ican as John Allen Chau and said he told a hotel he was 26 years old. Chau was apparently shot and killed by arrows, but the cause of death can’t be con- firmed until his body is recov- ered, Pathak said. “It was a case of misdi- rected adventure,” Pathak said. Chau arrived in the area on Oct. 16 and stayed in a hotel while he prepared to travel to the island. It was not his first time in the region — he had visited the Andaman and Nico- bar Islands in 2015 and 2016, AP Photo/Gautam Singh North Sentinel Island, in India’s southeastern Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Pathak said. North Sentinel is in the Andaman Islands at the intersection of the Bay of Ben- gal and Andaman Sea. Chau organized his visit to the island through a friend who hired seven fishermen for $325 to take him there on a boat, which also towed his kayak, Pathak said. The American went ashore in his kayak on Nov. 15 and sent the boat with the fisher- men out to sea to avoid detec- tion, Pathak said. He interacted with some of the tribespeople, offering gifts such as a foot- ball and fish. But the tribespeo- ple became angry and shot an arrow at him, hitting a book he was carrying, Pathak said. After his kayak was dam- aged, Chau swam back to the fishermen’s boat, which was waiting at a prearranged loca- tion. He spent the night writing about his experiences on pages that he then gave the fisher- men, Pathak said. He set out again to meet the tribespeople on Nov. 16. What happened then isn’t known. But on the morning of the following day, the waiting fishermen watched from a dis- tance as the tribesmen dragged Chau’s body. They left for Port Blair, the capital of the Anda- man and Nicobar Islands, where they broke the news to Chau’s friend, who in turn notified his family, Pathak said. Police charged the seven fishermen with endangering the life of the American by tak- ing him to a prohibited area. Chau had lived in Okla- homa, where he attended Oral Roberts University, and in southwestern Washington state, where he attended Van- couver Christian High School. Phone messages left with some of his relatives were not imme- diately returned Wednesday. Kathleen Hosie, spokes- woman for the U.S. Consul- ate in Chennai, the capital of India’s southern Tamil Nadu state, said she was aware of reports concerning an Ameri- can in the islands but could not comment further due to pri- vacy considerations. Survival International, an organization that works for the rights of tribal people, said the killing of the American should prompt Indian authorities to properly protect the lands of the Sentinelese and other Andaman tribes. “The British colonial occu- pation of the Andaman Islands decimated the tribes living there, wiping out thousands of tribespeople, and only a fraction of the original pop- ulation now survives. So the Sentinelese fear of outsiders is very understandable,” Ste- phen Corry, the group’s direc- tor, said in a statement. Shiv Viswanathan, a social scientist and a professor at Jin- dal Global Law School, said North Sentinel Island was a protected area and not open to tourists. “The exact population of the tribe is not known, but it is declining. The government has to protect them,” Viswana- than said. Poachers are known to fish illegally in the waters around the island, catching turtles and diving for lobsters and sea cucumbers. Tribespeo- ple killed two Indian fisher- men in 2006 when their boat broke loose and drifted onto the shore. One of Chau’s friends, Casey Prince, 39, of Cape Town, South Africa, said he met the adventurer about six years ago, when Chau was a manager on the soccer team at Oral Roberts University in Oklahoma. Chau and others on the team traveled to South Africa to volunteer at a soccer development and social leader- ship program Prince founded, AP Photo/Sarah Prince John Allen Chau, right, stands for a photograph with Founder of Ubuntu Football Academy Casey Prince, 39, in October just days before he left for India. Ubuntu Football Academy. Since then, Chau had been back to visit Prince and his family or tutor and coach boys in the program about four times. Most recently, he was there from mid-September to mid-October, Prince said. Prince described him as easy to like, kind, joyful and driven by twin passions: a love of the outdoors and fervent Christianity. “He was an explorer at heart,” Prince said. “He loved creation and being out in it, I think having probably found and connected with God that way, and deeply so.” Prince declined to discuss what Chau had told him about his plans for traveling in India or the islands, saying instead he wanted to focus his com- ments on who Chau was. But he said Chau, who previously spoke of having been bitten by a rattlesnake, accepted the dangers that came with his adventures. “If he was taking a risk, he was very aware of it,” Prince said. Fair weather, falling gas prices help Thanksgiving travelers Associated Press Mild weather and falling gasoline prices are helping Thanksgiving travelers get where they’re going while saving a few bucks. Airports around the coun- try were busy Wednesday, leading to more than 1,500 delayed flights by early after- noon on the East Coast. Only about 75 flights were can- celed, however, with about 40 of those in San Francisco, according to tracking service FlightAware. “It has been a good day so far. The weather has been very cooperative,” said Amer- ican Airlines spokesman Ross Feinstein. “It’s busy, but this Sunday and Monday will be busier travel days for us.” Holiday revelers travel- ing by car were able to take advantage of a big decline in gasoline prices caused by lower oil prices. 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GasBuddy, a price-com- parison site, said prices were under $2 a gallon in nine states, with several oth- ers hovering just above that mark. “We will see the national average go lower because there are still drops in the pipeline,” said GasBuddy analyst Patrick DeHaan. He estimated that U.S. motor- ists are spending $100 mil- lion less each day on gasoline than they were a month ago. AAA is forecasting the busiest Thanksgiving travel period since 2005. Most peo- ple who will travel at least 50 miles from home are going by car, according to the auto club. AAA spokesman Rob- ert Sinclair credited a strong economy and rising con- sumer confidence, “and when we have a little time built into our schedules, we take advan- tage of it.” Much of the country was blessed with mild weather, but that was expected to change in some areas. Rain was moving in along the West Coast, contributing to delays in places including San Fran- cisco, where the Federal Avi- ation Administration said arriving flights were run- ning nearly two hours late on average. In the Northeast, frigid temperatures were fore- cast for Thanksgiving Day, although the holiday itself is traditionally a light travel day. WANTED Alder and Maple Saw Logs & Standing Timber Northwest Hardwoods • Longview, WA SCHEDULE A - Charter Astoria/ Seaside - L - Charter Long Beach Aside from the weather, American Airlines airport kiosks were knocked offline briefly on Wednesday morn- ing. The airline said no flights were delayed because of the problem, which appeared to be fixed by midday. The day before Thanks- giving was a more difficult travel day in the past. Many Americans who travel over the holiday now start earlier and return later, spreading crowds over several days. 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