Oct 30 2012 Near death

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  In two days I've seen two people shiver of panic. I thought both could die, they also. Her body trembled to impress their apparent fragility ... Nature in Africa is hard, conditions to deal with it too.

(The photo belongs to an old abandoned cemetery. A place of graves that locals do not like to go for fear. Death is part of life in this community)

In two days I've seen two people shiver of panic. I thought both could die, they also. Her body trembled to impress their apparent fragility… Nature in Africa is hard, conditions to deal with it too.

Last Thursday I was sitting at the door of a bar when I heard desperate cries of a girl. I got alarmed and saw a girl lying on the floor and a man trying to calm her by his side. She cried and her body convulsed on the floor. I had a panic attack. "I was bitten by a snake, I was bitten by a snake ", shouted. He tried to calm her down, lifted his leg and tried to see if it had been bitten. She trembled and cried without being able to understand anything. "A cobra, a cobra ", I said to a desperate cry. I started shouting for people to come over to help her.

"I was bitten by a snake, I was bitten by a snake ", shouted

We took her to a couch between several people. I thought maybe his remaining minutes of life. If I had bitten mamba life could be running out for this woman. Simply, real tan. She knew that her face was contorted and as a puzzle with missing pieces. Trembled, his whole body shook with spasms. A woman asked while trying to calm her milk. "The blood flows faster, and with it the poison that is inside, when you alter ", explained. He threw milk leg to see if there was any bite. He had not. As, His friend made a thigh tourniquet. “No, has not been bitten ", conclude.

She still did not believe. His shoulders swaying and eyes swelled. "Do not get bitten", we explained and she was getting slowly to stare at a leg that is not inflamed. "He stepped on the snake and this has gone by the ankle", recounted his partner. He had not bitten, had only grazed and that was enough for the woman went into a total panic. Do not forget your eyes, the face of terror, by uncontrolled body spasms of fear. It is hard to think that I was able to spend some sentence you to live a few more minutes of life. A few minutes ... and the end.

Do not forget your eyes, the face of terror, by uncontrolled body spasms of fear

The next morning we took a boat to Bazaruto Island. We arrived at a local beach fishermen who carried boxes and boxes of sardines that had fished with nets and dried under an imposing sun. That beach is spectacular, length, eternal, surrounded by high sand dunes and bush. We were alone, allí no van turistas, among a population that watched us curiously.

Then two young men shouted "relief, relief ". Beside also started shouting some girls. We look to the sea and saw in the distance a boat that had capsized, candle just looked distant and gestures help of some people. We rushed hastily on our motor and went to rescue. A few minutes after our boat came to the old boat sunk.

The only support that kept him engaged in life was sinking. He could not swim

On the wood had a child, was not more than five years, trembling with fear and tears with another girl no more than 20 years. The little boy was in panic. The only support that kept him engaged in life was sinking. He could not swim. Cried. We went up to the boys to tow our boat and sunk the old tree. Beside me, Majine, a Muslim who had invited us to meet those lands, said: "God is great, God is great. He sent us here to save the lives of those people ". That was. It was by chance that that child remains alive. If we had not come to that beach at that exact moment, the frightened kid would perhaps dead at the bottom of the Indian. Another project of dying prematurely fisherman drowned there without ceremony to remind. One more and one less. Another was fortunate not a fast boat to rescue him from the order.

PD. Cobras, very numerous in Mozambique, kill people. Probably the death rate is less than that occurring with accidents bus, but the fear of these reptiles is widespread among the population. Uno no sube a un «chapa» (bus) and thinks it can die, but you can walk through the countryside death by snakebite . There are also people who despite living near the sea and dies not swim in these waters.