fire-plough

Updated: July 5, 2025

While many prepared the earth-oven for the pig, the head cook made fire in their primitive way, using the fire-plough of purau-wood braced against a pillar of the veranda. Meantime the oven was dug, sides and bottom lined with stones, and sticks piled within it for the fire.

Frederick O'Brien - White Shadows in the South Seas