The Caroline Islands

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Excerpt from The Caroline Islands: Travel in the Sea of the Little LandsHE period between the years 1890 and 189 3 in Samoa was marked by civil war between the rival factions of Malietoa and Matafa, ending, as all the world knows, in the overthrow and deportation of the latter chief. A partisan feeling in the struggle, Shared by me with Robert Louis Stevenson, my neighbour of Vailima, resulted in the extension of an intimacy with the Samoan people and their chiefs. It sprung, naturally enough, in the first place, from the interest I had always taken in their sports, and the assistance I was happy to afford them by distributing medi cines in the outer districts during the epidemics of measles and in¿uenza which unhappily carried off so many of the natives during these years. A keen interest in philology and kindred subjects (especially in connection with the malayo-polynesian peoples), dating from my college days and encouraged by the sympathetic counsels of the late Master of Balliol, could not well fail to take an active form under the stirring in¿uence of the genial author Of A Footnote to History.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.