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The island, so Niâbon told me, had not been inhabited for a great number of years, though it was occasionally visited by natives for the purpose of collecting the ripe coco-nuts, and turning them into oil, and sometimes the white traders, living on Apaian, would stop there when they were on their way to Tarawa and Maiana Lagoons. "Why such a name?" I asked.
Apemama alone is left upon one side, the tourist dreading to risk himself within the clutch of Tembinok'. And fear of the same Gorgon follows and troubles them at home. Maiana once paid him tribute; he once fell upon and seized Nonuti: first steps to the empire of the archipelago.
And the people of Apiang thought much of Te Matân Bob, as much as the inhabitants of the whole group from Arorai in the south to Makin in the north do to this day of quiet, spectacled Bob Corrie, of wild Maiana, who can twist them round his little finger without an angry word.
The story was told to her by old Kaibuka, who himself had participated in the massacre, which had been planned and executed under the direct supervision of his father, his uncle, and himself. And it was not the only such affair in which he had been concerned not on Tarawa alone, but on the neighbouring lagoon of Maiana.
Sixty miles due south of us was Maiana Lagoon a huge square-shaped atoll, into which we might run, and have the boat plundered by the natives to a certainty. That was no good.
"That is what this truculent scoundrel says," and the officer nodded in the direction of a native who had seated himself on the ground only a few yards distant from the rock behind which the girl was hidden. "He tells me that young Swain came home about a week ago from Maiana" another island of the group "and the old man induced him to stay at home and help him rig a new boat he has just built."
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