The year was 1982. By chance, during a trip in Sri Lanka, I became aware of a brochure from the travel agency Tjæreborg. It advertised a charter trip from Copenhagen to Sri Lanka which included a week's exotic tour of the tropical island.
One of the exotic features – a visit to Sri Lanka's indigenous peoples, the Weddas – particularly piqued my interest. For in Tjæreborg's description of the lives and remains of the Weddas, the word "primitive" was suspiciously often used.
So I went to the Tjæreborg office in Colombo and asked them if it was possible for me to join the tour they were advertising, even though I was not part of the charter trip from Copenhagen. A couple of seats were available, so for a relatively inexpensive money I got a seat.
A few days later I was sitting with about thirty Scandinavian tourists in a Tjæreborg bus on my way into the Sri Lankan jungle. Over the loudspeaker, the Danish tour guide prepared us. . .
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