Excerpt from The Jalasco Brig. But all this is changed now, and the rattle of the wooden war drum has given place to the sound of the mission school bell, calling them together in the big white walled church built of coral lime and stones, taken from the reef; and the remaining people of the group, especially those of the younger generation, know nothing of the heathen laws, customs, and mode of life of their savage forefathers. All they do know is that those were the times of the pa ulz' uli - the old heathen days, when men's lives were held cheaply, and when the whispered word or the open frown of the chief, and the ill-will of the priests of the god Erikobai, meant swift death by club or Spear. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.