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Show Doomsday The end of the world Is In sight, according to the Inhabitants of Pit-cairn Pit-cairn island, and they are making no provision for the future, says the Montreal Mont-real Herald. They are not planting young coconuts this year nor storing up anything for the futu e. The 193 people of the Island are the descendants descend-ants of English sailors who mutinied on the warship Bounty in 1790 and Tahitiap women. Because of their isolation in mid-Pacific, the islanderi 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 wer made from the iron of the Bounty, Visitors are not allowed to smok there. Neither are they permitted to drink alcohol or wear shorts. |