The island was practically run by a few missionaries who converted the population; Willard Price, when he visited in the 1930s, reported that the island had no jail, there had been no murders in sixty years, and alcohol and tobacco were unheard of.
A illa foi practicamente manexada por uns poucos misioneiros que converteron a poboación; Willard Price, cando visitouna na década de 1930, informou que a illa non tiña cárcere, alí non houbera asasinatos en sesenta anos, e o alcohol e o tabaco eran descoñecidos.