And this heightens the extraordinary character of what I have now to tell.

Prudence and delicacy alike ought to have forbid the camp of Tamasese to the feet of either Leary or Moors.

Moors was the original--there was a time when he had been the only--opponent of the puppet king.

Leary had driven him from the seat of government; it was but a week or two since he had threatened to bombard him in his present refuge.

Both were in close and daily council with his adversary, and it was no secret that Moors was supplying the latter with food.