Such were the amenities of Apia.

But Becker reserved for himself the extreme expression of this spirit.

On November 7th hostilities began again between the Samoan armies, and an inconclusive skirmish sent a fresh crop of wounded to the de Coetlogons.

Next door to the consulate, some native houses and a chapel (now ruinous) stood on a green.

Chapel and houses were certainly Samoan, but the ground was under a land-claim of the German firm; and de Coetlogon wrote to Becker requesting permission (in case it should prove necessary) to use these structures for his wounded.
Before an answer came, the hospital was startled by the appearance of a case of gangrene, and the patient was hastily removed into the chapel.