Dillon's Bay, Erromango
Wildfox
Anthony Swanston
Thu 18 Sep 2014 21:32
Next day David takes us to a cave where the women and children hid when the village was attacked by any of the other villages. Something that happened quite a lot, back then. Then on to another cave where the skulls of two chiefs and their wives still lie in state. A tour of the village includes a visit to the school and Presbyterian church. I remember one cathedral in Peru where the alter contained seven tons of silver. The alter here contains one cotton table cloth. Outside is a memorial to John Williams, a missionary, who broke a local tabu when he first stepped ashore. The villagers of course killed him immediately but because they had had a feast the day before they were not hungry. So they sold his body to a neighbouring village. And they ate him...
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