CHAPTER XIII.
Samoan royalty--King Malietoa--Good-by to friends at Vailima--Leaving Fiji to the south--Arrival at Newcastle, Australia--The yachts of Sydney--A ducking on the _Spray_--Commodore Foy presents the sloop with a new suit of sails--On to Melbourne--A shark that proved to be valuable--A change of course--The "Rain of Blood"-- In Tasmania.
At Apia I had the pleasure of meeting Mr.A.Young, the father of the late Queen Margaret, who was Queen of Manua from 1891 to 1895.

Her grandfather was an English sailor who married a princess.

Mr.Young is now the only survivor of the family, two of his children, the last of them all, having been lost in an island trader which a few months before had sailed, never to return.

Mr.Young was a Christian gentleman, and his daughter Margaret was accomplished in graces that would become any lady.

It was with pain that I saw in the newspapers a sensational account of her life and death, taken evidently from a paper in the supposed interest of a benevolent society, but without foundation in fact.