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...lication A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ation A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ..., the first step of military prepara- tion. The religious sentiment of the people is indeed for peace at any price; no pastor can bear arms; and even ... ...the long hours. But the special delight of the Samoan is the malanga. When people form a party and go from village to village, junketing and gossiping... ...as of the whites; in practice, they reduce it to a farce. I have heard the French resident in the Marquesas in talk with the French gaoler of Tai-o-ha... ...ve iron war-ships for his post-runners. But the mo- ment was critical. The revolution had to be explained, the chiefs persuaded to assemble at a fono ... ... for a couple of months and be well treated, just as we Germans did to the French chief [Napo- leon III.] some time ago, whom we kept a while and care...