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making ‘music ‘playing rusty saws with icepicks,
when I spotted a sign over the door that said: NO

HATS, NO PLATTS.
What did they have
against hats, and what was a
“plait"? My travelling
companion told me that a
hat meant a young criminal
of some kind and that a
“plait” was a Rastafarian,
better known as a Nasty
Rastie. ~-
My friend explained that
Rastafarians are a. black
religious group who belicve

they are the chosen-tribe,

descendants of .God, and
that. ‘Haile Selassie, the
is not .really-dead, he is a
réincarnation of Jesus
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to wash or even to clean
their hair. They were rare in
the Bahamas, my friend said,
because the government
tries to keep them out. The
real heavies of the cult were
over in Jamaica.

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A little while later, out on
the street, we spotted a
Rastie. —

He wore dusty coveralls,
and his hair was braided so
that it looked like spikes
were Sticking out of his
head. As he walked along,
people on the sidewalk
moved out of his way.

His head turned and
twisted but he didn’t seem to

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having a Heineken in'a bar nearthe docks see anyone around him. He

was cafryng on an animated
conversation with himself.

_-He looked quite mad.

A few street-hip young
dudes made loud comments,
like “Whew, man something
sure do stink around here.”
And: “Yeh, man, some
things my dog wouldn't eat.”
But “they too kept their
distance.

The Rastie was oblivious
to it all.

I could see that a guy like
this would be a pretty weird
customer to have in a bar.

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That night, my friend and
I wound up at a table
drinking with a dozen local
guys, one of whom was
wearing a thick woollen cap
despite the warmth of the
evening.

When it came time to
leave, the guy with the cap

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Anderson was charged
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said he knew where there
was a party if anyone wanted

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over-a —hill-—and: into a
sprawling region of unlit
streets with cracked
pavement.

The sidewalks and vacant
lots were alive with people.
Fires flickered. Drums and
guitars thrummed. What
with the palm trees above, it
was as though we had
stepped back from the 20tb
Century into a very
primitive, very tribal, very
African ‘scene. The heart of
darkness. And of course I
was ‘the only white guy
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A little bit uneasy? Nah.

At least not until we got
the the “party” and it turned
out to be just five other guys
sitting around, looking at me

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My guide took off his thick .,
woollen cap, .and, sure

enough, his hair was braided
-into those spikes Td seen on
the head of the madman
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A Rastafarian! I was
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Well, as it turned out, I
wasn't. The Nasty Rastie
proved to be a perfectly
normat religious fanatic who
was overflowing with love
for Jesus, who wanted to talk

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