ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses that the general outline provided, including that of the momentous events around the turn of the century, gets as close to the truth as is possible with the available sources. When people reach the period of formal colonialism, at least in rather thoroughly administered and missionised places like Solomon Islands, the task for an historian becomes rather different. Coconuts as a new form of agroforestry were quickly perceived to be the best route towards new wealth and status. In Malaita and parts of the Eastern Solomons the post-war period saw the development of cargo cults and similar social and political movements, but Marovo like the rest of the Western Solomons responded to the wartime experience in a different way. Government was almost synonymous with rural development, and any project was better than none at all. In order to gain additional perspectives on the "insider" view of the Marovo rainforest, let people shift briefly to the urban scene.
