[A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson]@TWC D-Link book
A Footnote to History

CHAPTER III--THE SORROWS OF LAUPEPA, 1883 TO 1887
57/60

Once, in their walks, they spied a breadfruit tree bearing in the garden of an English merchant, ran back to the prison to get a shilling, and came and offered to purchase.

"I am not going to sell breadfruit to you people," said the merchant; "come and take what you like." Here Malietoa interrupted himself to say it was the only tree bearing in the Cameroons.

"The governor had none, or he would have given it to me." On the passage from the Cameroons to Germany, he had great delight to see the cliffs of England.

He saw "the rocks shining in the sun, and three hours later was surprised to find them sunk in the heavens." He saw also wharves and immense buildings; perhaps Dover and its castle.

In Hamburg, after breakfast, Mr.Weber, who had now finally "ceased from troubling" Samoa, came on board, and carried him ashore "suitably" in a steam launch to "a large house of the government," where he stayed till noon.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books