On the beach were the native boats, perhaps five thousand dollars' worth, deserted by the Mataafas and overlooked by the Germans, in their common hurry to escape.

Still Moors held eastward by the sea-paths.

It was his hope to get a view from the other side of the promontory, towards Laulii.

In the way he found a house hidden in the wood and among rocks, where an aged and sick woman was being tended by her elderly daughter.

Last lingerers in that deserted piece of coast, they seemed indifferent to the events which had thus left them solitary, and, as the daughter said, did not know where Mataafa was, nor where Tamasese.
It is the official Samoan pretension that the Germans fired first at Fangalii.