This is an epitaph the man would have enjoyed.
At one period of his career, Weber combined the offices of director of the firm and consul for the City of Hamburg.

No question but he then drove very hard.

Germans admit that the combination was unfortunate; and it was a German who procured its overthrow.

Captain Zembsch superseded him with an imperial appointment, one still remembered in Samoa as "the gentleman who acted justly." There was no house to be found, and the new consul must take up his quarters at first under the same roof with Weber.
On several questions, in which the firm was vitally interested, Zembsch embraced the contrary opinion.

Riding one day with an Englishman in Vailele plantation, he was startled by a burst of screaming, leaped from the saddle, ran round a house, and found an overseer beating one of the thralls.