Return of The Ancestors
The movement included the belief that a 'Ghost Steamer' piloted by the returning dead, would arrive presently, bringing with it a cargo that included, besides departed relatives: tinned food, tools, various other resources, and in one version, guns with which to expel the white colonizers. The latter item is disputed, and may stem from the account of contemporary expatriate plantation owners, who were highly distressed by events.
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