Complex sentence: In one of his trips he meets and falls in love with Mira a young native girl; he later returns to find her brother has been killed and she has been raped by Marais' rebels.
Split into simpler sentences: In one of his trips he meets and falls in love with Mira, a young native girl. On a later return trip, he learns that her brother has been killed and she has been raped by Marais' rebels.