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Show Doomsday The end of the world Is In sights according to the Inhabitants of Plt-cairn Plt-cairn Island, and they are making "d1 provision for the future, says the Montreal Mont-real Herald. They are not planting young coconuts this year nor storing-up storing-up anything for the futu e. The 193-people 193-people of the Island are the descendants descend-ants of English sailors who mutinied on the warship County in 1790 and Tahltlan women. Because of tneir isolatlon In mid-Pacific, the Islanders-are Islanders-are self-supporting. Coconuts and other fruits brought to the Island by the crew of the Bounty are still growing there. Some of the agricultural agricul-tural implements still used wera-rnade wera-rnade from the Iron of the Eounty. Visitors are not allowed to smokt-there. smokt-there. Neither are they permitted t drink alcohol or wear shorts. |