Sometimes He Sinned

Among the few people alive to day who remember August Engel hardt is Tolala (Gordon Thomas) who visited him many times on Kabakon.

"Engelhardt's religious discipline," he wrote in PIAA some time ago, "consisted of worshipping the sun through the medium of the coconut palm—which provided him with his only food and drink and means of shelter. He would bask in the sun for hours, although there were times, he told me, that he sinned and sought the shelter of a giant mango tree and enjoyed his beer or a bottle of wine, and the more orthodox food."