iskalota

Updated: May 15, 2025

They discussed the strange madness that had possessed Iuda Iskalota, that he had first bought land with his forty pieces of silver and then hanged himself to a purau tree. Was it cocoanut land? they asked. Was it not good land? Often across the worn stones of the paepae stole a vei, a centipede, upon which a bare foot quickly stamped.

Frederick O'Brien - White Shadows in the South Seas