This is not the last time that I shall have to salute the merits of that service.
The defeat and death of Saifaleupolu and the burning of Manono had thus passed off without the least advantage to Tamasese.

But he still held the significant position of Mulinuu, and Brandeis was strenuous to make it good.

The whole peninsula was surrounded with a breastwork; across the isthmus it was six feet high and strengthened with a ditch; and the beach was staked against landing.

Weber's land claim--the same that now broods over the village in the form of a signboard--then appeared in a more military guise; the German flag was hoisted, and German sailors manned the breastwork at the isthmus--"to protect German property" and its trifling parenthesis, the king of Samoa.

Much vigilance reigned and, in the island fashion, much wild firing.