In the past more than one Langa-Langa and Somo boy had gone to make a Su'u feast day, just as Su'u boys, on occasion, had similarly served feasts at Langa-Langa and at Somo.
"My word," Tambi, at the wheel, addressed Van Horn as the period of tension passed and the _Arangi_ went clear.

"Brother belong my father, long time before he come boat's crew along this place.

Big fella schooner brother belong my father he come along.

All finish this place Su'u.

Brother belong my father Su'u boys kai-kai along him altogether." Van Horn recollected the _Fair_ _Hathaway_ of fifteen years before, looted and burned by the people of Su'u after all hands had been killed.
Truly, the Solomons at this beginning of the twentieth century were savage, and truly, of the Solomons, this great island of Malaita was savagest of all.
He cast his eyes speculatively up the slopes of the island to the seaman's landmark, Mount Kolorat, green-forested to its cloud-capped summit four thousand feet in the air.