The Matoa would be found stranded on the Port Austin reef when the winds subsided.

The Matoa had passed between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario just after midnight.

Meanwhile, fifty miles further up the lake, the Matoa, and Captain Hugh McLeod had to ride out the storm without a safe harbor.

One of the few remaining Bissu priests, Puang Matoa Saidi, sat on the stage all evening, offering his blessings, chanting narration and turning pages in a text, as if testifying both to the epic's survival and to its vulnerability.

The production cast consists of 53 musicians and dancers, exclusively from Indonesia and mostly from Sulawesi, as well as one of the few remaining bissu shamans, Puang Matoa Saidi, from the Bugis transvestite community who narrates parts of the story.

Pometia pinnata (taun tree, island lychee, tava) is a large tropical hardwood and fruit tree in the family Sapindaceae (maple and lychee family).

Pometia pinnata (taun tree, island lychee, tava) is a large tropical hardwood and fruit tree in the family Sapindaceae (maple and lychee family).

Pometia pinnata (taun tree, island lychee, tava) is a large tropical hardwood and fruit tree in the family Sapindaceae (maple and lychee family).

Pometia pinnata (taun tree, island lychee, tava) is a large tropical hardwood and fruit tree in the family Sapindaceae (maple and lychee family).

She pulled off a piece of tava bread without looking up.

With his other hand, he took a piece of sticky tava.

The women bake the tava bread, the men make the weapons.

He took out a piece of tava bread and ate it as they walked along.

She urged him from the tava bread for a long kiss.

He put the last of the tava bread in his mouth and chewed for a few minutes.

They had a light lunch of tava bread and chicken broth.

He took a swig of water as she ate some more tava.

Richard chuckled and stuffed a piece of tava bread in her mouth.

Richard rolled up his last bite of tava with porridge.

She listened with a smile while they all ate stew and tava bread.

Those she helps pay her with tava bread, but it's the same thing almost as they do here with money.

First the chickens, then tava bread, and now your grandfather."

We must bake tava bread and cook our food.

He picked up his tava bread for a bite.

She describes them as "good farmers and fair traders", best known for their tava beans.

He took a bite of tava bread as his gaze roamed over her hair.

"Come, sit, and have tava and tea before you must leave on your journey."

Moreover the Tava had several fords, any one of which might be selected by the enemy.

The word tava is also used in Turkish, but refers to any kind of frying pan.

We'll have to start digging some more roots tonight, but I doubt we'll find tava.

He was eating a piece of tava bread.

He pointed at it with the rolled-up tava bread.

The tradition lives on in the form of the tava, a flat, round skillet perfect for grilling meals.

She gave them flat tava bread to fold and use as a scoop for the porridge.

Pometia pinnata (taun tree, island lychee, tava) is a large tropical hardwood and fruit tree in the family Sapindaceae (maple and lychee family).