The 2 men place their arrows in the bow, and get ready to shoot at him. Panicking, John turns around to leave. Some hours later, he tried again. He went to the north shore of the North Sentinel Island this time. From afar he could see about 6 Sentinelese people on the island looking in his direction, shouting, as if trying to say something.
Obviously, neither group could understand the language of the other. There’s no one on the planet who can understand the Sentinelese language, other than the Sentinelese people. Whatever syllables John could identify, he tried to repeat them and shouts towards them. The Sentinelese people laugh at him then. John slowly kept on approaching them. Remaining at a safe distance, he starts dropping off the ‘gifts’ he had brought for them.
There was a child and a young girl near them, carrying bows and arrows. John got off his kayak and tried to talk with the child. A North Sentinel man then steals his kayak from behind him, while he tries to explain some verses of the Bible to the child.
A few seconds later, the child took aim at John’s chest and shot an arrow. The arrow hits the Bible by chance and John’s life was spared. Panicking once again, John tried to escape. But since he didn’t have his kayak this time, he swims back to the boat somehow. At night, he wrote in his diary, “Lord, is this island Satan’s last stronghold?” “Is this island full of monsters where the natives haven’t even heard Jesus’s name?”
He continued writing in his diary, “I don’t want to die. I should go back. Lord, I don’t want to die.”
