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Ontar Village, Gaua

In the late nineteenth century, a white man named Maurice
sailed to Lakona Bay, Gaua. He exploded some dynamite
from his boat, to make a frightening sound to get the
attention of the people from the village and draw them to
the beach to see where the sound was coming from. First,
he gave away gifts: clothes and fabric, food and tobacco, to
entice the people from Gaua to trade with him.
He left and when he came back a short time later, he
started to trade with locals for goods. He taught them how
to make money with copra but then he increased the prices
of his goods by two times and then three times. The people
were not able to afford to pay, so he asked them to give him
a piece of land instead. The people agreed and he settled at
Quetevut and built himself a little trade store from where he
sold his goods. If you come to Quetevut you can see a piece
of concrete from Maurice’s store. Father Levi Sandy sings
this song to recall this story.

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from N​ē​v​ē​nek: Ground Music from Torba Province, Vanuatu, released September 30, 2019

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