Onotoa
OntotoaOntotoa - Republic of Kiribati
Ontotoa is an islet in the south Kiribati group. In 1826, most scholars agreed that Captain Clark of the John Palmer whaler in Britain spotted Onotoa. Captain Chase of the US ship Japan spotted Onotoa in the same year. Many Gilberteses (I-Kiribati) believe that their forebears were ghosts, some in Samoa and others in Kiribati, and that it was the Samoa movements that first inhabited the Kiribati Islands.
The Gilberts were recently migrated from Samoa about 500 to 600 years ago. Te Kaintikuaba was made from the Na Atibu spinal column according to the legend of Beru and some other isles. This was a Samoa nursery that was home to the ghosts who, together with Nareau the Wise, made the Tungaru isles.
According to some legends, Nareau the Wise was in Samoa and propagated there with the ghosts. Then, one of these days, he decides to follow the fate of his two kids who leave Te Kaintikuaba. On his way he abandoned Samoa to the northeast and established a place of rest by stamping down the ocean and speaking out mighty magical words.
See, the country has been inhabited by ghosts. Happy with his wonderful work, he went further on. Today these are called the Northern Kiribati isles. After Nareau the Wise had had had enough of these trips, he renamed Tematawarebwe and went back to Samoa with three of his children, Kourabi, Namai and Buatira.
When he reached Samoa, he said to his children and some of the villagers that they should take Te Kaintikuaba to a place he would show them. Ghosts who normally lived in Te Kaintikuaba were abandoned because they were not present during the distance. It was borne north until it reached a town on Beru Island.
When Tematawarebwe and its bearers took the next thing was Umananti (literally: home of the spirits). It was worn and placed in the centre of the isle. The Tematawarebwe rained on Beru. 4.45 pm I was weighing and drove to ONOTOA Iceland, where I anchored the next day at 9.45 am and anchored in 5ms.
It is impossible to better illustrate the excentricities of trade on these islands than those that currently exist on this island. Capt. Davis of H.M.S. Royalist paid a visit to Onotoa on 30 May and 24 July 1892 and made the following records in the logbook. Approximately 120 in FIJI, SAMOA, HONOLULU and MEXICO.
Communicating with other archipelagos etc. Well in 5 to 10 ms. before the N.W. end of the isle. Approximately 8 month before my stay on this isle, a local was hung or forced to hange himself in the Maneaba because he had murdered a man who had offended his woman in church by stretching out his mouth.
Cops on this little peninsula are dressed in turquoise and only on Mondays. In ONOTOA I found it common for a kid to die so that the caregiver could stay in the tomb for a while. The polygamy and the murder of children are almost dead, although there is a certain amount of unethical behaviour on some of the group's isles. By and large, they are the cheapest compared to other Pacific isles.
An eight-month before my stay at ONOTOA, a man was hung, or rather hung, because he had killed a man who had put his mouth out to the woman of his "murderer" in Mass.