At half-past seven in the evening guards were landed at the consulates.

On the morrow they were each fortified with sand-bags; and the subjects informed by proclamation that these asylums stood open to them on any alarm, and at any hour of the day or night.

The social bond in Apia was dissolved.

The consuls, like barons of old, dwelt each in his armed citadel.

The rank and file of the white nationalities dared each other, and sometimes fell to on the street like rival clansmen.