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|title=Child of the Jungle

|author=Sabine Kuegler

|date=December 2007

|isbn=978-1844082629

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Sabine Kuegler spent her childhood in Irian Jaya - the western half of Papua New Guinea. Born in Nepal, her father Klaus Peter was, is, a linguist and Christian missionary, employed by the Wycliffe Bible Translators, an organisation dedicated to making a translation of the Bible into every living language in the world. Sabine's father makes contact with the Stone Age Fayu tribe and they go to live with them, evangelise and study the language, together with mother Doris, sister Judith and brother Christian. Sabine plays with bows and arrows, eats white grubs, has narrow escapes from crocodiles, and swings through the trees on vines pretending to be Tarzan. She also witnesses clan wars, suffers frequent bouts of malaria, and watches her own Fayu foster brother die of TB, an imported disease.