Since about the same period, besides, the monarch must be described as in a state of sequestration.

A white man, an Irishman, the true type of all that is most gallant, humorous, and reckless in his country, chose to visit His Majesty and give him some excellent advice (to make up his difference with Mataafa) couched unhappily in vivid and figurative language.

The adviser now sleeps in the Pacific, but the evil that he chanced to do lives after him.

His Majesty was greatly (and I must say justly) offended by the freedom of the expressions used; he appealed to his white advisers; and these, whether from want of thought or by design, issued an ignominious proclamation.

Intending visitors to the palace must appear before their consuls and justify their business.
The majesty of buried Samoa was henceforth only to be viewed (like a private collection) under special permit; and was thus at once cut off from the company and opinions of the self respecting.