When we concluded our survey I remained behind in LaLoche. This is when things really started to happen in terms of my relationship with these people.  I was told that old Albert wanted to see me. I watched him build a canoe while he told me the story about the destruction of the Devil. He also told me that Eugene wanted to speak to me and had something to show me. Eugene was a young man who was quite technically astute, and we hit it off pretty good right from the start. He was going to take me across the lake to show me the evidence that proves old Albert's story.

First he wanted me to see how good a mechanic he was. Without any formal training, he was a wizard. He showed me the broken carburetor on his outboard motor, and pointed out how he had carved a fish bone to make a replacement actuator that functioned as well as the original actuator did before it broke. The actuator was part of the carburetor's choke linkage.  Eugene asked me outright if I would "be his friend." I said "yes," and we were off across the lake to look at a piece of steel hammered into a rock by a wayward native blacksmith who tricked the Devil into an early showdown with the church.