Weber, by the admission of Stuebel, was in the market supplying him with weapons; so were the Americans; so, but for our salutary British law, would have been the British; for wherever there is a sound of battle, there will the traders be gathered together selling arms.

A little longer, and we find Tamasese visited and addressed as king and majesty by a German commodore.
Meanwhile, for the unhappy Malietoa, the road led downward.

He was refused a bodyguard.

He was turned out of Mulinuu, the seat of his royalty, on a land claim of Weber's, fled across the Mulivai, and "had the coolness" (German expression) to hoist his flag in Apia.

He was asked "in the most polite manner," says the same account--"in the most delicate manner in the world," a reader of Marryat might be tempted to amend the phrase,--to strike his flag in his own capital; and on his "refusal to accede to this request," Dr.Stuebel appeared himself with ten men and an officer from the cruiser _Albatross_; a sailor climbed into the tree and brought down the flag of Samoa, which was carefully folded, and sent, "in the most polite manner," to its owner.