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Samoa Under the Sailing Gods

Appendix i

page 285

Appendix i

"The Samoans are distinguished by some remarkable qualities, which, if not deteriorated by so-called civilized people, give promise of a superior civilization. It is much to be regretted that they are not assisted in their advance by men of a more polished order than the greater part of those who have undertaken to elevate them. At all events it is greatly to be apprehended that the present miscellaneous instructors of these people will have but little sympathy with the highly distinguished manners that have so much astonished those who know how to appreciate them."—J. L. Brenchley in Jottings During the Cruise of H.M.S. "Curagoa" in 1865.