Victoria University of Wellington Library
Samoa Under the Sailing Gods
Contents
Contents
page
Introduction
xi
Prologue
1
Part
I
I.
Arrival of the Sailing Gods
9
II.
John Williams
21
III.
Second Voyage of John Williams
36
IV.
Converting the Heathen
51
V.
Foreign Influences
59
Part
II
VI.
Civilization
77
VII.
The Birth of a Mandate
95
VIII.
Prohibition
105
Part
III
IX.
Upolu—West
110
X.
Upolu—East
123
XI.
Colonel Tate
131
XII.
General Richardson
138
XIII.
Beetle Inspecting
145
XIV.
Death of Charlie Roberts
156
Part
IV
XV.
Beautification.
160
XVI.
The "Model Mandate"
171
XVII.
Money in the Savings Bank
184
XVIII.
"Wonder and Beauty"
196
XIX.
Before the Storm
205
Part
V
XX.
The "Lying Prophet" Arrives
220
XXI.
The Unlucky Session
235
XXII.
Moral Victories
248
XXIII.
The Tongafiti?
266
Appendixes
285
Bibliography
331
Index
335