# Inspector task sheet

Timor's grandfather crocodile: the island that was a body

## 1. Trace the earliest accessible record

For Timor's grandfather crocodile: the island that was a body, record author or storyteller, collection date, language, translation, page and exact scope. Distinguish evidence of a story being told from evidence of its events. Note which full documents remain unavailable.

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## 2. Investigate the central question

Compare complete Tetum and English versions with named narrators and publication histories. Distinguish ancestral address, island morphology and zoological observations. Track how tourism and national imagery shorten the tale. Compare motifs without assuming that all versions have identical moral episodes.

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## 3. Compare explanations without merging evidence

Compare attributed oral versions with the published retellings. Keep landscape descriptions separate from an event claim and its required physical evidence. Preserve contradictions and unsuccessful searches; proposed work remains unperformed.

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