A Footnote to History - Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa

A Footnote to History, by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Title: A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Release Date: April 26, 2005 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) [eBook #536]
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Transcribed from the 1912 Swanston edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
A FOOTNOTE TO HISTORY EIGHT YEARS OF TROUBLE IN SAMOA by Robert Louis Stevenson
PREFACE
An affair which might be deemed worthy of a note of a few lines in any general history has been here expanded to the size of a volume or large pamphlet. The smallness of the scale, and the singularity of the manners and events and many of the characters, considered, it is hoped that, in spite of its outlandish subject, the sketch may find readers. It has been a task of difficulty. Speed was essential, or it might come too late to be of any service to a distracted country. Truth, in the midst of conflicting rumours and in the dearth of printed material, was often hard to ascertain, and since most of those engaged were of my personal acquaintance, it ...