credit-system

Updated: June 16, 2025

Naturally, the high-castes cannot keep all the animals themselves, but they lend them, like money, to those who do not possess the number needed to rise in caste; in this way a complicated credit-system has developed, by which the so-called chiefs support and strengthen their influence and tyrannize the country. A young man, as a rule, owns no tusked pigs.

Felix Speiser - Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific