men-bush

Updated: July 29, 2025

All next day the steamer stays in the channel, taking on produce from every plantation, and for two days afterward merrymaking is kept up, then the quiet monotony of a tropical planter's life sets in once more. Sometimes a diversion is caused by a boy rushing up to the house to announce that some "men-bush" are approaching.

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