In one particular the spelling of Samoan words has been altered;
and the characteristic nasal n of the language written throughout
ng instead of g. Thus I put Pango-Pango, instead of Pago-Pago; the
sound being that of soft ng in English, as in singer, not as in
finger.
R. L. S.
VAILIMA,
UPOLU,
SAMOA.
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 of contemporary
history in the most exact sense. And yet, for all its actuality
and the part played in it by mails and telegraphs and iron war-