Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1893 — Had Never Seen a Fire. [ARTICLE]

Had Never Seen a Fire.

The inhabitants of the Marian Islands, which were discovered as late as 1551, had no idea of fire or its uses. Their astonishment know no bounds when they saw it applied to wood, most of them supposing it to be some kind of an animal which the sailors had brought with them and which must be fed on wood. To this day they designate it by a term which signifies “wood eater.”