Pot boil and caldron bubble! Within the memory of man, the white people of Apia lay in the worst squalor of degradation.

They are now unspeakably improved, both men and women.

To-day they must be called a more than fairly respectable population, and a much more than fairly intelligent.

The whole would probably not fill the ranks of even an English half-battalion, yet there are a surprising number above the average in sense, knowledge, and manners.

The trouble (for Samoa) is that they are all here after a livelihood.