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When he has taken this position, all who have come to the festival to worship our god Bir-ap-pa, bring cocoa-nuts, and going up to the pillar where the priest is kneeling, they take the cocoa-nuts in their hands, and press upon one another, each crying, `I am first, I am first. Then ten of the most respectable people come out, stand apart from the rest, make the people who are pressing forward stand back, and take the cocoa-nuts, which the people have brought, into their own hands.
No sooner had the ship come to an anchor than she was surrounded by canoes, the people from which leaped into the water and swam to her, carrying in their hands cocoa-nuts and roots of various sorts. These they bartered for nails, beads, and other trifles; so that the crew obtained a sufficient number of cocoa-nuts to supply each of them bountifully.
It may be impossible in your eyes: but remember always that nothing is impossible with God. But you said that the coal was made from plants and trees, and did plants and trees grow on this coral-reef? That I cannot say. Trees may have grown on the dry parts of the reef, as cocoa-nuts grow now in the Pacific.
This restriction they observed, and one of them, soon after, turned to his own advantage. For happening to have a few cocoa-nuts, which one of our people wanted to buy, and he was unwilling to part with, he walked off, and was followed by the man who wanted them.
Let us at once examine the gourds, that we may see what can be done." Mr Manners now called Marco, and begged him to set off at once with Ben, and examine the gourds, with a few of the other natives, while the rest dispersed on the island to collect roots, cocoa-nuts, and, indeed, any other food that they could find.
The people who break the cocoa-nuts are clever jugglers. They have a store of cocoa-nuts which have been previously broken and stuck together again. They substitute one for the other, and so deceive the people." S. "How it is, Sir, I don't know. You are a gentleman and you understand it. I only say what everybody says, Sir."
Paddy knew how to cook fish, island fashion, wrapping them in leaves, and baking them in a hole in the ground in which a fire had previously been lit. They had fish and taro root baked, and green cocoa-nuts; and after dinner Mr Button filled a big shell with rum, and lit his pipe. The rum had been good originally, and age had improved it.
"And cocoa-nuts in plenty," cried Mark. "If we can get at them," said the major. "Why, Billy, couldn't you climb one o' them trees?" cried Small. "I could one of the small ones," said Mark. "But the small ones don't seem to bear nuts," said the captain quietly. "I dunno," said Billy, after a spell of thinking. "I'm a bit skeert about it." "What, afraid?" growled Small.
He may be almost regarded as the prime minister of the islands, in addition to which he has started an extensive boat-building business and a considerable trade in cocoa-nuts, etcetera, with the numerous islands of the Java Sea; also a saw-mill, and a forge, and a Sunday-school in which last the pretty, humble-minded Winnie lends most efficient aid.
It grew up to be a cocoa-nut tree, and she got her leaves, and mats, and fans, and nuts, marked with the eyes and mouth of her departed eel, which she could kiss still; and there too she had a shade also when she sat down to work or rest and hence the origin alike of the name of the village, Laloata, and of the introduction of cocoa-nuts.
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