Its nature and prospective durability I will ask readers of this volume to forecast for themselves.

There is one way to peace and unity: that Laupepa and Mataafa should be again conjoined on the best terms procurable.

There may be other ways, although I cannot see them; but not even malevolence, not even stupidity, can deny that this is one.

It seems, indeed, so obvious, and sure, and easy, that men look about with amazement and suspicion, seeking some hidden motive why it should not be adopted.
To Laupepa's opposition, as shown in the case of the Lauati scheme, no dweller in Samoa will give weight, for they know him to be as putty in the hands of his advisers.

It may be right, it may be wrong, but we are many of us driven to the conclusion that the stumbling-block is Fangalii, and that the memorial of that affair shadows appropriately the house of a king who reigns in right of it.