I must certainly have erred often and much; it is not for want of trouble taken nor of an impartial temper.

And if my plain speaking shall cost me any of the friends that I still count, I shall be sorry, but I need not be ashamed.
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..