At the time of the first fire, the boat was off Grevsmuhl's wharf.

At the time of the second (and that is the one complained of) she was off Carruthers's wharf in Matautu.

Was she still proceeding on Mulinuu?
I trow not.

The danger to German property was no longer imminent, the shots had been fired upon a very trifling provocation, the spirit implied was that of designed disregard to the neutrality.

Such was the impression here on the spot; such in plain terms the statement of Count Hatzfeldt to Lord Salisbury at home: that the neutrality of Apia was only "to prevent the natives from fighting," not the Germans; and that whatever Becker might have promised at the conference, he could not "restrict German war-vessels in their freedom of action." There was nothing to surprise in this discovery; and had events been guided at the same time with a steady and discreet hand, it might have passed with less observation.