Produced by Marius Masi, Jonathan Ingram and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's note: The following typographical errors have been corrected: In page 58 "He was was an alien, he was supported by the guns of alien warships,..." 'was was' corrected to 'was'. In page 226 "I liked the end of that yarn no better than the begining." 'begining' amended to 'beginning'. THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SWANSTON EDITION VOLUME XVII _Of this SWANSTON EDITION in Twenty-five Volumes of the Works of ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Two Thousand and Sixty Copies have been printed, of which only Two Thousand Copies are for sale._ _This is No._ .......... [Illustration: SKETCH MAP OF THE BEACH OF FALESA AND NEIGHBOURING COUNTRY] THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON VOLUME SEVENTEEN LONDON: PUBLISHED BY CHATTO AND WINDUS: IN ASSOCIATION WITH CASSELL AND COMPANY LIMITED: WILLIAM HEINEMANN: AND LONGMANS GREEN AND COMPANY MDCCCCXII ALL RIGHTS RESERVED CONTENTS A FOOTNOTE TO HISTORY EIGHT YEARS OF TROUBLE IN SAMOA CHAPTER PAGE I. THE ELEMENTS OF DISCORD: NATIVE 5 II. THE ELEMENTS OF DISCORD: FOREIGN 15 III. THE SORROWS OF LAUPEPA (1883 _to September_ 1887) 27 IV. BRANDEIS (_September_ 1887 _to August_ 1888) 53 V. THE BATTLE OF MATAUTU (_September_ 1888) 70 VI. LAST EXPLOITS OF BECKER (_September--November_ 1888) 83 VII. THE SAMOAN CAMPS (_November_ 1888) 103 VIII. AFFAIRS OF LAULII AND FANGALII (_November--December_ 1888) 112 IX. "FUROR CONSULARIS" (_December_ 1888 _to March_ 1889) 128 X. THE HURRICANE (_March_ 1889) 142 XI. LAUPEPA AND MATAAFA (1889-1892) 156 ISLAND NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS The Beach of Falesa: I. A SOUTH SEA BRIDAL 193 II. THE BAN 206 III. THE MISSIONARY 228 IV. DEVIL-WORK 240 V. NIGHT IN THE BUSH 258 THE BOTTLE IMP 275 THE ISLE OF VOICES 311 A FOOTNOTE TO HISTORY EIGHT YEARS OF TROUBLE IN SAMOA PREFACE