Nancy A. Donnelly National Geographic News Service TONAMPARE, Ecuador. Five American missionaries flew into Ecuador’s Amazon jungle 38 years ago in a yellow Piper. A week later they were all dead, speared by primitive Indians who believed they were cannibals. The Huaorani Indians demol ished the single-engine plane on a small landing strip on the Curaray River that the Protestant mission aries had code-named Palm Beach. Days after the Jan. 8, 1956 killings, another missionary fly ing over the site saw no traces of the plane. Everyone assumed that violent tropical storms had washed it downriver. But this past June, amid the martyred mission aries’ graves, two members of the clan that had done the killing stumbled on a piece of metal sticking out of the sand near Palm Beach. They uncovered the front lower fuselage of the Piper, which has been piloted by Nathanael Saint of Huntingdon Valley, Pa. The discovery inspired a fami ly crusade to recover the Piper, salvage as much of it as possible and piece it together as a memori al to honor the five dead men. The Saints hope this tribute will encourage future missionar ies and further understanding between two vastly disparate cul tures. The number of American missionaries has declined world wide in; the past four decades. Some are still being martyred. Saint’s sister. RarhH SO h-»« B No hernia is unrepairable, even after several previous failed attempts. 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Nate Saint piloted the plane for the fel lowship. The team is steadily recover ing half-buried, scattered parts. Each recovery stirs memories.of a mission that began with hope and ended in horror. Discovery of the plane’s frag ments, says Steve Saint, is “almost as if God is saying, ‘I want you to remember what hap pened here.’” All five victims were young. Nate Saint was 32; James Elliot of Portland, Ore., 28; Edward McCully of Milwaukee, 28; Peter Fleming of Seattle, 27; and Roger Youderian of Lansing, Mich., 31. For several months before the 3 NEED YOUR FARM BUILDINGS PAINTED? Let us give you a price! Write: Daniel’s Painting 637-A Georgetown Rd. Ronks, PA 17572 (or leave message) »(71 7) 687-8262 m Spray on and Brush in Painting i Rl landing at Palm Beach, the mis sionaries periodically flew from Shell over th Huaorani village in the Amazon rain forest, or Ori ente. To win the trust of the reclu sive Indians, the men dropped gifts of machetes and aluminum kettles. In return, the Huaorani gave the Americans gifts, includ ing a live parrot. Most Huaorani are primitive,, seminomadic hunters. They have fiercely guarded their territory for centuries, earning them a reputa tion for savagery. The Christians were fully aware of the danger, and so they kept their mission a secret. Their landing was uneventful. For four days, they saw no peo ple. On the fifth day, three naked Huaorani, two women and a man, walked out of the jungle. Fist-size balsa wood ornaments hung in their distended earlobes. Initially, the meeting was ami cable. The missionaries cooked hamburgers for their visitors, shared insect repellent with them, even took them for rides over the dense green forest in the yellow Piper, which the Indians named the “wood bee.” ■ The Americans showed the Huaorani a photograph of Dayu ma, a woman from their tribe who had fled many years before, dur ing a wave of intratribal killings. The missionaries’ friendly gestures didn’t save their lives. George, the Americans’ nick name for the Huaorani man who had greeted them, told the tribe that the white men were cannibals who had attacked him. This belief was reinforced by the photograph of Dayuma. George said the image proved that the missionaries had posses sion of her spirit. Two days after the missionar ies and the Huaorani met, six trib al warriors attacked Palm Beach. One by one, they slaughtered the missionaries with 9-foot spears. Although the missionaries were armed, they chose to fire their guns into the air instead of shoot ing the Indians. Cook’s Question (Continued from Page 88) ANSWER Mrs. John Snyder Jr., Sunbury, wanted a recipe for cheese-filled Jalapeno peppers. Thanks to Irene Greer, Richwood, W.V., who sent a recipe. She writes that she serves the peppers unchilled and uncooked. 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