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He was in a widow, sligthly in the lower down.. As we had the sun in the back he used his hand as protection. We thought this was a salutation sign and we did the same gestures. The young scheperd saluted us in a shy way and went away with his herd. Worried by this meeting we decided to go back in our refuge and we place some defence and monitoring devices in the surroundings. But nothing moved during three days. Le child came back the day after, amazed of this encounter with people with tight clothes, and he was decieved not to meet them again. We observed him from our refuge we we dared no going out33. The 24th of april we made a house-breaking on a farm of the neighbourhood. We anesthesiated its inhabitants: a couple, their three children and some spanisch workers, the dog which began to bark. Then we penetrated in the building and gathered quickly some samples. Have been taken away: some clothes, identity cards (from which we could make very good falsifications), some pencils, an hygrometer representing the Blessed Virgin, keys, stamps, a groups of letters and unpayed bills, books about the breading of cows, the notice of a tractor34, a children encyclopedy, a roll of hygienic paper, a clock, some bulbs, the electric-light meter (that we removed from the wall wher is was fixed), some switches, drugd, six pairs of shoes, a radio, the school bag of one of the children, a bottle of lemon juice, two potatoes, a wall calender, a soap, a cutter and an oil burner35, and all the money we could find, 70000 french francs36. One may imagine the stupefaction of the farmers after the raid operated by the Ummits in their home. My friend Jean-Jacques Pastor, living in Digne, what facilitated our researches in the region. After nosing about everywhere, we had some information from a hairdresser who told him about this strange story. + coe He remembered having seen the members of a family of the surroundings, the Violat, who went down once to the village to deposit a strange complaint to the police office. Arriving there, they were all bare-feet ! Jean-Jacques was quite amazed while the coiffeur, remembering the sayings of the familly chief, gave pratically the whole list of stolen object written in the Ummits document. The Violat believed then to have be robbed by fools. 106