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).