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Samoa Under the Sailing Gods

IV

IV

In the east of Savaii, where I shortly accompanied the Director of Agriculture on his annual inspection, we found rumours were strong that the Administrator on this malanga, in the course of speeches, had warned the natives against the traders, telling them that they were their enemies. Supposing such statements to have been made—and there is corroborative testimony to that effect—and even allowing them to be true, it would be impossible to condemn the folly of them sufficiently in a country where the Europeans were so greatly out-numbered by the native population.