And this is the more singular because some were far from out of sympathy with the native policy pursued.

When I met Captain Brandeis, he was amazed at my attitude.

"Whom did you find in Apia to tell you so much good of me ?" he asked.

I named one of my informants.
"He ?" he cried.

"If he thought all that, why did he not help me ?" I told him as well as I was able.