He is of ordinary build, but his spirit is beyond description. This 17-year-old, at the height of his growth, seems bent on taking on everything. Opening up hompongan (a field), hunting, placing snares, fishing, swimming orin an area where he certainly has no competition among his Kubu tribereading and writing.

Gentars ability to read and write may be the gods blessings, which are rarely bestowed on the people of the Twelve Hills. For the Kubu peo