postman-policeman

Updated: May 28, 2025

It was seldom visited by white tourists, as even the post brought by the diligence ended at Taravao, and letters for farther on were carried afoot by the mutoi, or postman-policeman of the adjoining district, who handed on to his contiguous confrère those for more distant confines.

Frederick O'Brien - Mystic Isles of the South Seas.