COCONUT OFFERINGS
APPEASING A FIRE GOD Converted from cannibalism, the natives of the island of Ambrym, in the New Hebrides, spend their time in dodging earthquakes and raising coconuts with which to appease the fire god of the volcano Bembow. Ambrym is only 50 miles in circumference and its mountainous surface is much occupied by four volcanoes, with 16 craters. However, it is pointed out that only Bembow explodes often, and with accompanying quaking of the earth, while Marum has not erupted since 1913, and anothev fire mountain on the south-west point was active last in 1888. Tevin has not smoked for thousands of years.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 786, 5 October 1929, Page 23
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105COCONUT OFFERINGS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 786, 5 October 1929, Page 23
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