In this chapter, the narrator finally reaches the village and been discovered by a local women. However, the wowen treated her friendly and even clean her injures. Then narrator decides to pretend to be an ornithologist to stay to look for Nelson Denoon. During her living in the village, she is given a history of Tsau and told that Tsau's women, and she also learn to speak Setswana. One interesting episode is that another local suspicious woman, Dorcas, making veiled derisive references about bird studies as though she doubts the narrator's cover story. The committee finally votes and they make a rare exception allowing the narrator to stay as long as she is interested in the struggle of poor women strengthening themselves.
Through the narrater’s description we can find the village as an utopian society where women get high status and the reason how it comes into being. But what will happen after the committee finally find her real purpose here?
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