Photograph
by
Fay-Cooper
Cole
THE HOUSES IN HILI SIMAETANO ARE BUILT IN TWO LONG ROWS FACING
APAVED
COURT
On the right is the leaping stone over which the warriors jump to keep in trim (see text, page 2Io). Thistown
appears
tobeabout
toundergo
trans
formation. Missionary efforts have induced many of the people to put on European garments; ancestral stones
have
been
removed
from
infront
of
some of the houses, and the stone guardians at the entrance to the town have fallen. The ruins of several such
cities
dot
the
region
tothe
west.
With
the breaking up of the old life, the people tend to scatter and to live in small settlements.