The fine house of a Samoan chief is his appropriate attribute; yet, after seventeen months, the government (well housed themselves) have not yet found--have not yet sought--a roof-tree for their sovereign.

And the lodging is typical.

I take up the president's financial statement of September 8, 1891.

I find the king's allowance to figure at seventy-five dollars a month; and I find that he is further (though somewhat obscurely) debited with the salaries of either two or three clerks.

Take the outside figure, and the sum expended on or for His Majesty amounts to ninety-five dollars in the month.