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A Footnote to History

CHAPTER V--THE BATTLE OF MATAUTU
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With the dawn, the de Coetlogons from the English consulate beheld the ground strewn with these badges discarded; and close by the house, a belated turncoat was still changing white for red.
Matautu was lost; Tamasese was confined to Mulinuu; and by nine o'clock two Mataafa villages paraded the streets of Apia, taking possession.

The cost of this respectable success in ammunition must have been enormous; in life it was but small.

Some compute forty killed on either side, others forty on both, three or four being women and one a white man, master of a schooner from Fiji.

Nor was the number even of the wounded at all proportionate to the surprising din and fury of the affair while it lasted..


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