1.   Combine two cups of dried unsweetened coconut, the kind sold in bulk in health-food stores, with two cups of boiling water in a blender.

2.   Aerial television footage showed the ferry listing to one side as flames flickered from its windows and smoke poured out from its burning cargo of dried coconut.

3.   As dark fell, the charred ferry was listing to one side and smoke continued to pour out from the dried coconut.

4.   Flames spread rapidly from the lower deck after a cargo of dried coconut caught fire.

5.   Copra are dried coconut kernels.