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Jack London South Sea Tales: Mauki (5692 words) |
 | So Malaita remains today, in the twentieth century, the stamping ground of the labor recruiters, who farm its coasts for laborers who engage and contract themselves to toil on the plantations of the neighboring and more civilized islands for a wage of thirty dollars a year. |
| He became the slave of old Fanfoa, head chief over a score of scattered bush-villages on the range-lips of Malaita, the smoke of which, on calm mornings, is about the only evidence the seafaring white men have of the teeming interior population. |
| They had to be, or else they would not make a practice of venturing along the Malaita coast and into all harbors, two on a schooner, when each schooner carried from fifteen to twenty fls as boat's crew, and often as high as sixty or seventy fl recruits. |
| Malaita Island, Solomon Islands - John Seach (106 words) |
| Malaita is a culturally rich island north of Guadalcanal. |
| The people of Malaita maintain strong customs, especially the Kwaio people of the interior. |
| Shark worship is still practiced on the west coast. |
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