An Excerpt from the book, Palau, by Nancy Barbour ... canoe houses and elaborate stone causeways, docks and tree-lined stone paths. Politics was foremost on the minds as was inter-village warfare.

In Palau, the shell of a hawksbill is used to make ... One day, a spider-god named Mengidabrutkoel, was spinning a web in a fruit tree when he saw a beautiful girl looking for fallen fruits.