The rainforest was also greatly destroyed from the forest fires of 1997 to 1998, which were started by the locals to clear the forests for crops and perpetuated by an exceptionally dry El Niño season during that period.

Yersin also noted that rats were affected by plague not only during plague epidemics but also often preceding such epidemics in humans, and that plague was regarded by many locals as a disease of rats: villagers in China and India asserted that, when large numbers of rats were found dead, plague outbreaks soon followed.

Gardner also returned to his old interests in the anthropology of Malaya, witnessing the magical practices performed by the locals, and he readily accepted a belief in magic.

The main unit of local government was the parish, and since it was also part of the church, the elders imposed public humiliation for what the locals considered immoral behaviour, including fornication, drunkenness, wife beating, cursing and Sabbath breaking.

However Ibn Battuta also mentioned an ingenious trick used by locals that allowed them to hunt hippopotamus for both their meat and hides.

A dispute has arisen among various locals regarding its validity, and one of the main opponents of this fairly small movement, Jonath Mathew, also a two-time Swedish champion in pigeon shooting ( 2007 and 2009 ), has been adamant to change the name in line with the underlining theme of the municipality.

It is near a popular hangout place among the locals named Haji Samuri, which is also home to the famous dish satay Kajang.

Like global variables, they also have a hierarchical storage model, but are only " locally available " to a single job, thus they are called " locals ".

The MCG, often referred to by locals as " The G ", has also hosted other major events, including International Rules between the Australian Football League ( AFL ) and Gaelic Athletic Association, international Rugby union, State of Origin series ( rugby league ), FIFA World Cup qualifiers and International Friendly matches, serves as the finish line for the Melbourne Marathon and also major rock concerts.

The Maasai Mara National Reserve ( also spelled Masai Mara ; known by the locals as The Mara ) is a large game reserve in south-western Kenya, contiguous with the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.

Many locals also speak English.

The locals also feast on wide varieties of meats, above all pork.

Having purchased the Achilleion in 1907 after Sissi's death, he appointed Carl Ludwig Sprenger as the botanical architect of the Palace, and also built a bridge to be named by the locals after him: " Kaiser's bridge " ( Greek: η γέφυρα του Κάιζερ transliterated as: i yefyra tou Kaizer ), to access the beach without traversing the road forming the island's main artery to the south.

Summer is also when many villages are host to a range of folk festivals and fairs, taking advantage of the fact that many of the locals who reside abroad tend to come back to their native village for the holidays.

In late November, Khabarov's people undertook a three-day campaign against the local chief Zhakshur ( Жакшур ) ( whose name is also known in a more Russian version, Zaksor ( Заксор )), collecting a large amount of tribute and announcing that the locals were now subjects of the Russian Czar.

The city is also known as the World Capital of Olive Oil, because it is the biggest producer of the oil, known by locals as liquid gold.

Fire Down Below is a 1997 American action thriller film directed by Félix Enríquez Alcalá, starring Steven Seagal as an EPA agent who investigates a Kentucky mine and helps locals stand up for their rights ; co-starring Marg Helgenberger, Kris Kristofferson, Harry Dean Stanton, and Stephen Lang, the film also includes cameos by country music performers Randy Travis, Mark Collie, Ed Bruce, Marty Stuart, and Travis Tritt, and country-rocker and The Band member Levon Helm.

His rotations also puzzled locals, including beat writers.

Along there in the American Revolutionary War, Colonel Abraham Buford fled from Tarleton and was overtaken a few miles south of the North Carolina state line where the Patriot forces were defeated in a controversial struggle known as the Battle of The Waxhaws, also known as Bufords Massacre to locals.

Many locals prefer to simply call it Benecìa, which is also used by most of the local media.

Many outsiders also have bought holiday homes in the area, resulting in an increase in the cost of property, which has subsequently priced many young Irish-speaking locals out of the market, forcing many of them to settle away from home ( almost always in an English-speaking area ).

The crude locals are unimpressed by the " city boys ;" it is also implied that some of the locals are inbred.

Incorrectly claimed by locals as the world's second longest natural sand bar, the Eel River Bar, is a barrier beach located at the mouth of the Eel River immediately west of the village of Charlo, New Brunswick.

For many years locals have claimed that this rock formation, when viewed at the correct angle, appears similar to a profile of Joseph Smith's face.

He also enlisted the aid of the United States, sending President Chester A. Arthur carefully edited copies of the cloth-and-trinket treaties British explorer Henry Morton Stanley claimed to have negotiated with various local authorities, and proposing that, as an entirely disinterested humanitarian body, the Association would administer the Congo for the good of all, handing over power to the locals as soon as they were ready for that grave responsibility.

A ship claimed to be from France unloaded illicit tea and brandy at Aberdaron in 1767, and attempted to sell its cargo to the locals ; a Revenue cutter discovered salt being smuggled at Porth Cadlan in 1809 ; and a schooner on route from Guernsey to Scotland was reported to have offloaded lace, tea, brandy and gin at Y Rhiw in 1824.

Despite this short history of official breed recognition, it is often claimed that Jämthunds have been raised by the locals in Jämtland since the end of the last ice age.

If so, it has remained far more secret and " esoteric " than in any of the other great spiritual traditions of the world, so much so that its existence is highly doubtful ..." The Welsh writer Norman Lewis, in his celebrated account of life in Naples in 1944, claimed that San Rocco was the patron saint of coitus reservatus: " I recommended him to drink -- as the locals did -- marsala with the yolk of eggs stirred into it, and to wear a medal of San Rocco, patron of coitus reservatus, which could be had in any religious-supplies shop ".

For many years, locals have claimed that the sea mud has a curative effect.

The government made little notice and claimed the attacks were made by coyotes, where locals said the wounded cattle could not have been hurt in such a fashion by normal coyotes.

However the locals refused this name and claimed that the city's name should be Colon.

However, a few Uralla locals claimed that it was his uncle, William ( Harry ) Ward-posing as Thunderbolt, who was killed at this time and not Fred Ward.

Soon she was not seen at night either and the Captain claimed she had disappeared, but locals were suspicious.

They also claimed that Bougainville Copper had set up a system of apartheid on the island, with one set of facilities for white workers, and one set for the locals.

The " Kenyir Monster ," or " dragon fish " as the locals call it, was claimed to be responsible for the mysterious drowning of two men on June 17.

They also claimed that Bougainville Copper had set up a system of apartheid on the island, with one set of facilities for white workers, and one set for the locals.

He reported other mysterious animals unknown to zoology, such as a small cat-like dog about the size of a foxhound, which he claimed to have seen twice, or the giant Apazauca spider which was said to have poisoned a number of locals.

It is claimed by some locals that the rip in the centre of the beach is partly caused by the remaining foundations of the old entertainment pier ( see above-history ).

A year hence, at the 3rd Convention of October 1882, some 2, 000 locals and a total membership of 100, 000 was claimed.

The water is highly sulphuric and smells of rotten eggs, but it is claimed by the locals that it has healing properties, and people from as far away as Argentina have been there to collect water for drinking.

While Jewish populations around the world as far as India and Ethiopia have always claimed descent from the twelve tribes of Israel, it is unclear whether all or some of the Jewish populations of Arabia did have such an ancestry, or were locals who have adopted Judaism as a faith, or mixtures of both cases.

Areas such as Gudbrandsdalen became popular travel destinations because of their historical importance and reputation as rural heartlands, where many locals claimed ancestry from the Norse kings.

Hunt claimed that the local Aborigines referred to the place as ' Merriding ' while other explanations suggest that the name comes from ' merrit-in ' - ' the place of the merrit ' ( merrit being a kind of tree which was used for making spears )-or that it was the name used by the Aborigines to describe the ' huge bare granite rock ' which the locals call Merredin Rock but which is officially named Merredin Peak.

Also the locals collect both buds and flowers both as a delicacy as well as for its claimed medical powers.

The story was widespread throughout Britain in the early 1930s due to extensive press coverage, but whilst several other people, both locals and visitors, claimed to have heard Gef's voice, only two persons other than the Irvings themselves ever claimed to have seen the entity.