. In the south seas : a foot-note to history. 6g THE SOUTH SEAS not a son, but an adopted nephew ? How if the founderof the monarchy, while he worked for his brother,worked at the same time for the child of his loins ?How if on the death of Tembaitake, the two strongernatures, father and son, king and kingmaker, clashed,and Tembinok, when he drove out his uncle, drove outthe author of his days ? Here is at least a tragedy four-square. The king took us on board in his own gig, dressedfor the occasion in the naval uniform. He had little tosay, he refused refreshments, shook us briefly by thehand
. In the south seas : a foot-note to history. 6g THE SOUTH SEAS not a son, but an adopted nephew ? How if the founderof the monarchy, while he worked for his brother,worked at the same time for the child of his loins ?How if on the death of Tembaitake, the two strongernatures, father and son, king and kingmaker, clashed,and Tembinok, when he drove out his uncle, drove outthe author of his days ? Here is at least a tragedy four-square. The king took us on board in his own gig, dressedfor the occasion in the naval uniform. He had little tosay, he refused refreshments, shook us briefly by thehand, and went ashore again. That night the palm-tops of Apemama had dipped behind the sea, and the,schooner sailed solitary under the stars. ysQ A FOOT-NOTE TO HISTORY ArmaNondum inexpiatis uncta cruoribus,Periculosae plenum opus aleae, Tractas et incedis per ignes Suppositos cineri doloso. FAi-EULA W)tNT MATAFANQATELEg/ rAjQALIItl SUNC;a PlarkaHon H:us6 cF fellete SKETCH ViKP OF A PABTOfTHE NORTH COAST OP rPOLU- SCALt >i INCH TO THE SEA Viilf. SALUAFATA BAY EIGHT YEARS OF TROUBLE IN SAMOA CHAPTER I THE ELEMENTS OF DISCORD: NATIVE THE Story I have to tell is still going on as I write;the characters are alive and active; it is a piece ofcontemporary history in the most exact sense. Andyet, for all its actuality and the part played in it by mailsand telegraphs and iron war-ships, the ideas and themanners of the native actors date back before the RomanEmpire. They are Christians, church-goers, singers ofhymns at family worship, hardy cricketers; their booksare printed in London by Spottiswoode, Trubner, orthe Tract Society; but in most other points they are thecontemporaries of our tattooed ancestors who drovetheir chariots on the wrong side of the Roman have passed the feudal system; they are not yetclear of the patriarchal. We are in the thick of the ageof fina
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