Malaita

"I have told you," he began stiffly, "that recruiting on Malaita is impossible for a woman, and that is all I care to say -- or dare."

Chapter 9 2010

At age seven he was kidnapped by bushmen and became a slave in Malaita's bush villages, then when he was seventeen was turned over to a blackbirding gang for a half case of tobacco, some knives, axes, calico and beads, and taken aboard a schooner to toil three years on the plantations of the Moongleam Soap Co. on New Georgia, clearing jungle and cutting cane grass.

“Some day, all the fools will be dead....” 2008

They speak of McTavish, the "Trouble-mender," whom Grief had assigned to pacify New Gibbon, the tough Scotchman at present in Malaita starting a plantation.

“Have you lived? What have you got to show for it?” 2008

"I have told you," he began stiffly, "that recruiting on Malaita is impossible for a woman, and that is all I care to say -- or dare."

As Between A Man and A Woman 1911

I ran in cargoes of kinky-heads from Malaita, which is in the Solomons, till I had twelve hundred of the blackbirds putting in cane.

THE PRINCESS 2010

But if he ever got a chance at that white man, if he ever caught him sick or stood at his back when he stumbled and fell on a bush - trail -- well, there would be a head that would fetch a price in Malaita.

Chapter 2 2010

I ran in cargoes of kinky-heads from Malaita, which is in the Solomons, till I had twelve hundred of the blackbirds putting in cane.

The Princess 1918

I ran in cargoes of kinky-heads from Malaita, which is in the Solomons, till I had twelve hundred of the blackbirds putting in cane.

The Red One Jack London 1896

It is equally true that on some islands, such as Malaita, the profit and loss account of social intercourse is calculated in homicides.

The Terrible Solomons 1911

It is equally true that on some islands, such as Malaita, the profit and loss account of social intercourse is calculated in homicides.

Great Sea Stories Various 1897