The same afternoon, the Tamasese boats got in with provisions, having passed to seaward of the lumbering Manono fleet; and from that day on, whether from a high degree of enterprise on the one side or a great lack of capacity on the other, supplies were maintained from the sea with regularity.

Thus the spectacle of battle, or at least of riot, at the doors of the German firm was not repeated.

But the memory must have hung heavy on the hearts, not of the Germans only, but of all Apia.

The Samoans are a gentle race, gentler than any in Europe; we are often enough reminded of the circumstance, not always by their friends.

But a mob is a mob, and a drunken mob is a drunken mob, and a drunken mob with weapons in its hands is a drunken mob with weapons in its hands, all the world over: elementary propositions, which some of us upon these islands might do worse than get by rote, but which must have been evident enough to Becker.