‘White Skin’

I received a message from Taniera Neaibiri in the Kiribati Republic this morning: 

"I was interested with your surname Scarborough. I remember the name, when I was very young, on my home island Beru, in the southern Gilbert islands. ...  I still remember his [Rev. Scarborough's] young boy. I don't know his name until now. We used to play with him, but not so long, as the mother called him to come back as usual. We are so fond of him as we call him Imatang or white skin."

OBSERVATION: That boy was me. I was the only white boy.