"You must not stay here, you will get killed," she said.

"The bush is full of our people, the others are watching them, fighting may begin at any moment, and we are both here too long." So they set off together; and she told him by the way that she had came to the hostile camp with a present of bananas, so that the Tamasese men might spare her house.

By the Vaisingano they met an old man, a woman, and a child; and these also she warned and turned back.

Such is the strange part played by women among the scenes of Samoan warfare, such were the liberties then permitted to the whites, that these two could pass the lines, talk together in Tamasese's camp on the eve of an engagement, and pass forth again bearing intelligence, like privileged spies.

And before a few hours the white man was in direct communication with the opposing general.