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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: of a more metaphysical nature was ministered by the EBER to
Tamasese, in the shape of uncountable German flags. The full
history of this epidemic of bunting falls to be told in the next
chapter. But the fact has to be chronicled here, for I believe it
was to these flags that we owe the visit of the ADAMS, and my next
and best authentic glance into a native camp. The ADAMS arrived in
Saluafata on the 26th. On the morrow Leary and Moors landed at the
village. It was still occupied by Mataafas, mostly from Manono and
Savaii, few in number, high in spirit. The Tamasese pickets were
meanwhile within musket range; there was maintained a steady
sputtering of shots; and yet a party of Tamasese women were here on
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