The canoes are hauled up on the beach; the nets are spread to dry.

Passing by the hen-coop huts on the roadside, you find their occupants idle, as usual; but less disposed to gossip.

After service, repose broods over the whole island; the valleys reaching inland look stiller than ever.
In short, it is Sunday--their "Taboo Day"; the very word formerly expressing the sacredness of their pagan observances now proclaiming the sanctity of the Christian Sabbath..