FIRST AUCA IN AMERICA
sionary Nate Saint) to use Dayuma as an informant. W ycliffe workers are patiently piecing together the difficult lan guage of the Aucas with the help of Dayuma. She seems a w illing work er and has no desire to go back to to her tribe because she knows it would mean death. But she is still a hold out as far as accepting Christianity is concerned. W ycliffe workers are confident, however, that the day w ill soon come when this young Auca woman w ill be lieve the message she is helping to put into writing. END.
g i n c e January of last year the word “ Auca ” has been blazed in headlines around the world (see page 37). Few outsiders had ever seen one of these savage stone-age Indians from Ecuador until a fortnight ago when the first Auca came to Am er ica. She is Dayuma and she came to appear on a coast-to-coast T V program that had an estimated 40- m illion viewers. The photo on this page was taken in the T V studio in Burbank, Calif. The story behind this program is a dramatic one.
Dayuma escaped from her tribe and found a haven on the planta tion o f Don Carlos Sevilla. About two years ago a worker w ith the famed W y cliffe Bible Translators (706 h ighly skilled linguists work ing on unwritten languages around the world) w a s c h a t t i n g with Sevilla’s son who was working in a bank. Young Sevilla just hap pened to mention that his father had an Auca working for him. That was the long prayed for contact. Don Carlos graciously per mitted W ycliffe workers (among them the sister of martyred mis
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The King's Business/July 1957
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