And in case of any attempt upon Apia, the roads thither are to be held by a strong landing-party.

Mataafa was to be disarmed first, perhaps rightly enough in his character of the last insurgent.

Then was to have come the turn of Tamasese; but it does not appear the disarming would have had the same import or have been gone about in the same way.

Germany was bound to Tamasese.

No honest man would dream of blaming Knappe because he sought to redeem his country's word.