As a matter of fact it was never used but by the Mataafas, and the Tamaseses were cared for exclusively by German doctors.

In the progressive decivilisation of the town, these duties of humanity became thus a ground of quarrel.

When the Mataafa hurt were first brought together after the battle of Matautu, and some more or less amateur surgeons were dressing wounds on a green by the wayside, one from the German consulate went by in the road.

"Why don't you let the dogs die ?" he asked.

"Go to hell," was the rejoinder.