ADV DE JAGER
I don't want to interfere, I think you've got a valid point and a valid question.  I just want to put, we've come across things like this very often in our travels, especially where you get a person who writes these things out in English when English is not his first language.  And if one has to just fiddle around with this statement that you refer to and said, "..who was acting as a chief in the area", it also makes sense, and then it would be consistent, but I'm just pointing that out, you can carry on on the line you have chosen, I just thought I'd mention to you, that one could manipulate the import.