10 BEACH-LA-MAR. 
them a certain regard for the integrity of their skins, and their 
characteristics of orthodoxy led them to look with equal disfavor 
upon the oven for their mortal parts and flames for whatever residue 
they considered themselves to possess. Thus it came about that 
their activities were unequally advanced. In general we may assign 
the sandalwood trade to the thirties of the last century, the trepang 
fishing to the forties and fifties, the labor trade to the middle sixties 
and thence onward in ever increasing vigor for about a score of years. 
