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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: cultivate a stipulated area. Thus, as the young men continued to
pass through the army, habits of discipline and industry, a central
sentiment, the principles of the new culture, and actual gardens of
cacao, should be concurrently spread over the face of the islands.
Tamasese received, including his household expenses, 1960 dollars a
year; Brandeis, 2400. All such disproportions are regrettable, but
this is not extreme: we have seen horses of a different colour
since then. And the Tamaseseites, with true Samoan ostentation,
offered to increase the salary of their white premier: an offer he
had the wisdom and good feeling to refuse. A European chief of
police received twelve hundred. There were eight head judges, one
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