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excellent horbour:for ships when trading and leading exports.
An atoll
gencrally consists of reny islands thet cen be used for various purposes.
Finally,
food end an
wedical patients are efforded a safe evacuation in the sheltered vaters of the
lagoon.
Killi is a single island surrounded by tre ero waves.
This accounts for
very poor fishing and hazardous trading situations much of the year.
The cances of
these people are in a constant battle with the ocean, and occasionally the occan
wins.
£&£ few months azo vhen the sea was "ealm", one fisherman tried his luck - the
outcome wes a broken canoe ard no fish.
During the months December to Maveh no one
attempts canoe fishing; one look at the ocean and the reason is clear.
During these
months the people must tuy their food from tne fleid trip ships.
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The frequency and efficiency of the field trip ships seams incredibly tad to
those of us who have core from a country With a highly organized transporte tion
system,
However, I will discuss them here only as they relate to the Kill
Situation.
Generally, these ships come every 3 Or + monvas.
16 hours, but because of
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The last ship sta}oa
the waves it was umable to do any trading.
It departed with
the promise that it would return when finished with its other stops.
return,
but it was now very pcorly supplied.
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One rajor iten, kerosene was unavailedie; and this was
the second ship which had come to Killi with no kerosene.
been able to buy kerosene for more than 6 months.
Thus these people kad not
However, most important the food
fupplies were inadequate; thus, during the most difficult wonths for fishing, the
supply of canned food was inadegquzt
A lagoon is surrounded by many islands; *ixini is an atoll surrounding a lagoon.
Le Mar shallese generally use their land area om an atoll in this vay; one or more
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On Killi, tne piss live right in the villese with the peovle, as do tha
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