The ill-found island traders ride there with their insufficient moorings the year through, and discharge, and are loaded, without apprehension.

Of danger, when it comes, the glass gives timely warning; and that any modern war-ship, furnished with the power of steam, should have been lost in Apia, belongs not so much to nautical as to political history.
The weather throughout all that winter (the turbulent summer of the islands) was unusually fine, and the circumstance had been commented on as providential, when so many Samoans were lying on their weapons in the bush.

By February it began to break in occasional gales.

On February 10th a German brigantine was driven ashore.

On the 14th the same misfortune befell an American brigantine and a schooner.