:37:00
but he never came back.
:37:03
At dawn the next day,
:37:06
the others went looking for him,
but they feared the worst...
:37:11
Do you mind if I smoke?
:37:13
Be my guest.
:37:17
In the village, no one had seen him...
:37:20
They spent all day looking
for the jeep, but to no avail.
:37:23
Late in the afternoon,
:37:26
in a clearing, in the opposite
direction from the village,
:37:30
they found the remains of the jeep.
:37:34
Why was the jeep there,
so far from the village?
:37:38
They were puzzled.
:37:41
It looked like Abel and Matateu
had been ambushed
:37:47
so they approached carefully.
:37:50
Beside the jeep,
they found one body,
:37:55
burned beyond recognition.
:37:58
But they never believed it was Abel.
:38:05
Nor did we.
:38:07
But the official version
:38:10
was that the body
was that of Abel Cavaco,
:38:12
and a coffin was sent to the city
with the remains
:38:17
which were probably of Matateu.
:38:21
So today, perhaps, the unclaimed body
of a black man lies buried in Boliqueime
:38:26
beneath a gravestone honouring
a fallen hero in a foreign war.
:38:34
And Abel was never seen again?
:38:37
No.
:38:41
Some days later,
news reached the camp
:38:44
that a white soldier had been seen
in a nearby village, in Chang'ra.
:38:50
The lmmortals were convinced
that it was Abel
:38:55
and decided to search the village,
:38:59
on the pretext that it was
a terrorist hideout.