Radio Off-Beam
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[?]apeete Coconut Radio Off-Beam
3ERE is never a lack of Island old-timers able to cite cases of the working of the mysterious onut radio. o-and-so’s aunt died at Hiva and Cousin Tere knew all about it Mangareva ten seconds later, ; is less frequent, however, that ;s are cited where the receiving ion has clearly been off [uency—such as a case in Tahiti September. ays before the 78-ton schooner aita was due from the Tuamotu, eete was abuzz with a coconut io news-flash that there were )ts of gold aboard—loot from Peru, which tradition states, buried at a Tuamotu atoll. r hen the schooner was sighted, svork on the waterfront came to lit, and a large crowd assembled ;he little ship came alongside— :h to the bewilderment of >per Charles Palmer, Jr. and crew. reasure? A full cargo of copra mother-of-pearl shell worth a let of money, certainly, but loot
i Lima—unfortunately, no,
t least, so the skipper insists, man with the off-tune coconut o, if he could be found, would oubtedly maintain that his iver was in order whatever body said to the contrary.