“If you want me to get actually shot or even killed with an arrow, then so be it,” he wrote, addressing God. Photograph: AFP/Getty Imagesīut his diaries revealed less certainty about the mission he was undertaking. He signed off: “ Soli deo gloria” (glory to God alone).Ī Sentinelese man aims his bow and arrow at an Indian coastguard helicopter as it flies over North Sentinel Island after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The eternal lives of this tribe is at hand and I can’t wait to see them around the throne of God worshipping in their own language, as Revelations 7:9-10 states.” Rather, please live your lives in obedience to whatever he has called you to and I’ll see you again when you pass through the veil. “Please do not be angry at them or at God if I get killed. “You guys might think I’m crazy in all this, but I think it’s worth it to declare Jesus to these people,” he wrote. The next day as he prepared to make another approach, Chau wrote a letter to his parents. “Well, I’ve been shot by the Sentinelese.” One of the tribespeople – “a kid probably about 10 or so years old, maybe a teenager” – fired an arrow that struck his Bible, he wrote that night, onboard the boat of fishermen he paid 25,000 rupees (£275) to smuggle him close to the island. I felt some fear but mainly was disappointed.
“I paddled like I never have in my life back to the boat. I picked up the fish and threw it towards them. “I hollered: ‘My name is John, I love you and Jesus loves you.’ I regret I began to panic slightly as I saw them string arrows in their bows. They burst out laughing most of the time, so they probably were saying bad words or insulting me. “So I got a little closer as they (about six from what I could see) yelled at me, I tried to parrot their words back to them. “I made sure to stay out of arrow range, but unfortunately that meant I was also out of good hearing range.
“I heard the whoops and shouts from the hunt,” Chau wrote in an entry that was given to several media outlets by his mother.
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