This is the way and the exact cave where there 6 castaway boys managed to make a fire for the first time after 3 months trying in Ata Island.
Spanish explorer Alvaro Cerezo spent 10 days in Ata alone with Kolo Fekitoa, one of the six young castaways. And they made fire using exact system the castaways did on Ata Island back in 1965: the Fire Plow method which was very common in Polynesian Islands. The 6 teenagers had to try hard everyday for 3 months, until they succeeded. Until then they had to eat their birds and fish raw. More details of their survival in the book coming in soon.
These are the Lord of the Flies. The Six Tongan Castaways
1965 SUMMARY:
After nine days drifting at sea, they washed onto Ata’s shores- spending the first three months drinking seabird’s egg’s yolks on the beach to survive before braving the climb up the island’s steep cliffs when they realised no boat was coming to rescue them. On the plateau above, they discovered signs of the civilisation which had been there before - a plantation which they weeded and maintained, banana and coconut trees, and chickens.
The boys lived in peace on the island for more than a year, playing games, making musical instruments and devising exercises to keep themselves fit - while in the meantime their families eventually gave up searching for them and held funerals, assuming they had been lost at sea.
Eventually, after 15 months they were spotted by an Australian sea captain exploring the waters for a new fishing spot and returned to Tonga, with a film made about their miraculous exploits. Their story rose to prominence again recently as proof William Golding’s seminal text did not represent the true human condition - that chaos and darkness would not necessarily prevail. .
When Alvaro and Kolo returned to the island in 2015 they lived in the same way as the boys had done - eating fish and seabirds and getting their daily liquid from coconuts and rainwater which they collected in the holes of trees.
The boys, who all attended a prestigious boarding school together in Nuku’alofa’, Tonga’s capital, launched their fateful expedition because they didn’t like their school dinners, but soon were caught in a storm.
After nine days drifting at sea, they washed onto Ata’s shores- spending the first three months drinking seabird’s egg’s yolks on the beach to survive before braving the climb up the island’s steep cliffs when they realised no boat was coming to rescue them. On the plateau above, they discovered signs of the civilisation which had been there before - a plantation which they weeded and maintained, banana and coconut trees, and chickens.
The boys lived in peace on the island for more than a year, playing games, making musical instruments and devising exercises to keep themselves fit - while in the meantime their families eventually gave up searching for them and held funerals, assuming they had been lost at sea.
Eventually, after 15 months they were spotted by an Australian sea captain exploring the waters for a new fishing spot and returned to Tonga, with a film made about their miraculous exploits. Their story rose to prominence again recently as proof William Golding’s seminal text did not represent the true human condition - that chaos and darkness would not necessarily prevail. .
The 6 castaways names are Kolo Fekitoa, Mano Totau, Luke Veikoso, John Sione Fataua, Stephen Fatai Latui, Tevita Fifita Siolaa. They are like the real Lord of the Flies Story
The captain name was Peter Warner in the boat Just David.
Special thanks to Cheyenne Morrison for letting Alvaro know years ago about this remarkable castaway story!
7 фев 2021
