Le Mamea (a very able chief) was secretly among the malcontents.
His family and followers murmured at his weakness; but he continued, throughout the duration of the government, to serve Brandeis with trembling.

A circus coming to Apia, he seized at the pretext for escape, and asked leave to accept an engagement in the company.

"I will not allow you to make a monkey of yourself," said Brandeis; and the phrase had a success throughout the islands, pungent expressions being so much admired by the natives that they cannot refrain from repeating them, even when they have been levelled at themselves.

The assumption of the Atua _name_ spread discontent in that province; many chiefs from thence were convicted of disaffection, and condemned to labour with their hands upon the roads--a great shock to the Samoan sense of the becoming, which was rendered the more sensible by the death of one of the number at his task.
Mataafa was involved in the same trouble.

His disaffected speech at a meeting of Atua chiefs was betrayed by the girls that made the kava, and the man of the future was called to Apia on safe-conduct, but, after an interview, suffered to return to his lair.