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A strange young man, Barry Clinton. Unlike most young missionaries, who came to the island to save lots of souls, this one had feature a belligerent skepticism and a driving determination to battle sickness and starvation. He previously come to the Ile du Vent with a Bible and some meager medical equipment - ready to make the little Caribbean island an improved place in which to live on. The Mix on the Drum is the story of the weird friendship of Barry Clinton and Catus Laroche - high priest of vodun, the savage, ritualistic religious beliefs which no white man acquired ever dared defy. It explains to of the tormented, embittered passions of the other islanders - white and black - and how they undermined the bond between these two men, changing their mutual value into brooding, vengeful hatred, and turning the island's drowsy, sunlit tranquility into a feverish, drum-pounding battleground. Hugh B. Cave, whose knowledge and profound knowledge of life and traditions in the West Indies distinguished his earlier works, Haiti: Highroad to Excitement and Drums of Revolt, has written here an explosive, remarkable book of Christianity and voodoo on a Caribbean island.
