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and dropped on the ground on the side i followed him at once and instantly fell all my length weak was i and so giddy with that long exposure here then we lay for an hour or two aching from head to foot as weak as water and lying quite naked to the eye of any soldier who should have strolled that way none came however all passing by on the other side bo that our rock continued to be our shield even in this new position presently we began again to get a little strength and as the soldiers were now lying closer along the proposed that wo should try a start i was by this time afraid of but one thing in the world and that was to be set back upon the rock anything else was welcome to me so we got ourselves at once in marching order and began to slip from rock to rock one after the other now crawling flat on our in the shade now making a run for it heart in mouth the soldiers having searched this side of the valley after a fashion and being perhaps somewhat sleepy with the of he afternoon had now laid by much of their vigilance and stood at their posts or only kept a look out along the banks of the river so that in this way keeping down the valley and at tlie same time towards the mountains we drew steadily the in the away from their neighbourhood but the business was the most wearing i had ever taken part in a man had need of a hundred eyes in every part of him to keep concealed in that country and within cry of so many and scattered when we must pass an open place quickness was not all but a swift judgment not only of the lie of the whole country but of the of every stone on which we must set foot for the afternoon was now fallen so breathless that the rolling of a sounded abroad like a pistol shot and would start the echo calling among the hills and cliffs by we had made some distance even by our slow rate of progress though to be sure the on the rock was still plainly in our view but now we came on something that put all fears out of season and that was a deep rushing burn that tore down in that part to join the river at the sight of this we cast ourselves on the ground and plunged head and shoulders in the water and i cannot tell which was the more pleasant the great shock as the cool stream went over us or the with which we drank of it we lay there for the banks hid us drank again and again bathed our let our wrists trail in the running water till they ached with the chill and at last being wonderfully renewed we got out the meal bag and made in the iron pan this though it is but cold water mingled with yet makes a good enough dish for a hungry man and where there are no means of making fire or as in our case good reason for not making one it is the chief stand by of those who have taken to the as soon as the shadow of the night had fallen we set forth again at first with the same caution but presently with more boldness standing our full height and stepping out at a good pace of walking the way was very intricate lying up the steep sides of mountains and along the brows of cliffs clouds had come in with the sunset and the night was dark and cool so that i walked without much fatigue but in continual fear of falling and rolling down the mountains and with no guess at our direction the moon rose at last and found us still on the road it was in its last quarter and was long beset with clouds but after a while shone out and showed me many dark heads of mountains and was reflected far underneath us on the narrow arm of a sea at this sight we both paused i struck with wonder to find myself so high and walking as it seemed to me upon clouds to make sure of his direction seemingly he was well pleased and he must certainly have judged us out of ear shot of all our enemies for throughout the rest of our night march he the way with whistling of many tunes warlike plaintive tunes that made the foot go faster tunes of my own south country that made me fain to bo home from my adventures and all these on the great dark desert mountains making company upon the way chapter xxi the vi in the the of as day comes in the beginning of july it was still dark when we reached our destination a in the head of a great mountain with a water running through the midst and upon the one hand a shallow cave in a rock grew there in a thin pretty wood which a little further on was changed into a wood of pines the burn was full of the wood of on the open side of the mountain beyond would be always whistling and were plentiful from the mouth of the we looked down upon a part of and on the sea that that country from and this from so great a height as made it my continual wonder and pleasure to sit and behold them the name of the was the of and although from its height and being so near upon the sea it was often beset with clouds yet it was on the whole a pleasant place and the five days we h in it went happily we slept in the cave our bed of bushes we cut	38
for that purpose and covering ourselves with s great coat there was a low concealed place in a turning of the where we were so bold as to make fire so that we could warm ourselves when the clouds set in and cook hot and the little that we caught with our hands under the stones and overhanging banks of the burn this was indeed our chief pleasure and business and not only to save our meal against worse times but with a that much amused us we spent a great part of our days at the water side stripped to the waist and groping about or as they say for these fish the largest we got might have been a quarter of a pound but they were of good flesh and and when upon the coals lacked only a little salt to be delicious in any by time must teach me to use my sword for my ignorance had much distressed him and i think besides as i had sometimes the upper hand of him in the fishing he was not sorry to turn to an exercise where he had so much the upper hand of me he made it somewhat more of a pain than need have been for he at me all h the lessons in a very violent manner of scolding and would push me so close that i made sure he must run me through the body i was often tempted to turn tail but held my ground for all that and got some profit of my lessons if it was but to stand on guard with an assured countenance which is often all that is required so though i the flight in the never in the least please my master i was not altogether displeased with myself in the meanwhile you are not to suppose that we neglected our chief business which was to get away it will be many a long day said to me on our first morning before the red coats think upon seeking so now we must get word sent to james and he must find the for us and how shall we send that word says i we are here in a desert place which yet we dare not leave and unless ye get the fowls of the air to be your messengers i see not what we shall be able to do ay said ye re a man of small contrivance david thereupon he fell in a muse looking in the embers of the fire and presently getting a piece of wood he fashioned it in a cross the four ends of which he blackened on the coals then he looked at me a little could ye lend me my button says he it seems a strange thing to ask a gift again but i own i am to cut another i gave him the button whereupon he strung it on a strip of his great coat which he had used to bind the cross and tying in a little of and another of fir he looked upon his work with satisfaction now said he there is a little what is called a hamlet in the english not very far from and it has the name of f u i there there are many friends of mine whom i could trust with my life and some that i am no just of ye see david there will be money set our heads james is to set money on them as for the they would never spare where there was a to be hurt if it was otherwise i would go down to whatever and trust my life into these people s hands as lightly as i would trust another with my glove but being so said i being so said he i would aa they i see me there s bad folk everywhere and what s far worse weak ones so when it dark again i will steal down into that and set this that i have been making in the window of a good friend of mine john a of s with all my heart says i and if he finds it what is he to think well says i wish he was a man of more b for by my i am afraid he will make little enough of it i but this ia what i have in my mind this cross is something in the nature of the or fiery cross which ia the signal of gathering in our yet he will know well enough the is not to rise for there it is standing in his window and no word with it so he will say to t te ii not to i iii there u then he will see my a is n tenant who from landlord and the flight th button aad that was s and then he will say to son of is in the and need of me well said i it may be but even supposing so there is a good deal of between here and the forth and that is a very true word but then john will see the of and the of pine and he will say to if he is a man of any penetration at all which i will be lying in a wood which is both of pines and then he will think to that is not so very and then he will come and give us a look up in and if he does not david the devil may fly away with him for what i care for he will no be worth the salt to his eh man said i with him a little you re very ingenious but would it not be for you to write him a few words in black and white and that is an excellent observe mr of says with me and it would certainly	38
be much for me to write to him but it would be a sore job for john to read it he would have to go to the school for two three years and it s possible we might be wearied waiting on him so that night carried down his fiery cross and set it in the s window he was troubled when he came back for the dogs had and the folk run out from their houses and he thought he had heard a clatter of arms and seen a red coat come to one of the doors on all accounts we lay the next day in the borders of the wood and kept a close look out so that if it was john that came we might be ready to guide him and if it was the red coats we should have time to get away about noon a man was to be straggling up the open side of the mountain in the sun and looking round him as he came from under his hand no sooner had seen him than he whistled the man turned and came a little towards us then would give another peep and the man would come still nearer and so by the sound of whistling he was guided to the spot where we lay he was a ragged wild bearded man about forty with the and looked both dull and savage although his english was very bad and broken yet according to his very handsome use whenever i was by would suffer him speak no perhaps the strange language made him appear more backward than he really was but i thought he had little good will to serve us and what he had was the child of terror would have had him carry a message to james but the would hear of no message she was forget it he said in his screaming voice and would either have a letter or wash his hands of us i thought would be at for we the plight in the lacked the means of writing in that desert but he was a man of more resources than i knew searched the wood until he found a of a dove which he shaped into a pen made himself a kind of ink with from his horn and water from the running stream and tearing a corner from his french military commission which he carried in his pocket like a to keep him from the gallows he sat down and wrote as follows dear please send the money by the bearer to the place he of your affectionate cousin a s this he to the who promised to make what manner of speed he best could and carried it off with him down the hill he was three full days gone but about five in the evening of the third we heard a whistling in the wood which answered and presently the came up the water side looking for us right and left he seemed less sulky than before and indeed he was no doubt well pleased to have got to the end of such a dangerous commission he gave us the news of the country that it was alive with red coats that arms were being found and poor folk brought in trouble daily and that james and some of his servants were already clapped in prison at fort william under strong suspicion of it z it was on all sides that brook had ed the shot and there was a bill issued for both and me with one hundred pounds reward this was all as bad as could be and the little note the had carried us from mi s t was of a miserable in it she not to let himself be captured assuring him if he fell in the hands of the troops both he and james were no better than dead men the money she had sent was all that she beg or borrow and she heaven we could be doing with it lastly she said she enclosed us one of the bills iu which we were described we looked upon with great curiosity and not a little fear partly as a man may look io a mirror partly as he might look into the barrel of an enemy s gun to judge if it be truly aimed was advertised as a marked active man of thirty five or thereby dressed in a hat a french side coat of blue with silver buttons and lace a great deal a red waistcoat and breeches o black and i as a tall strong lad of about eighteen wearing an old blue coat very ragged an old bonnet a long home waistcoat blue his legs e shoes wanting the toes speaks like a and has no beard was well enough pleased to see his finery bo fully remembered and set down only when he came to the word he looked u on bis lace like one a little as for myself thought i cut a the flight in the miserable figure in the bill and yet was well enough pleased too for since i had changed these rags the description had ceased to be a danger and become a source of safety said i you should change your clothes na said i have others a fine sight i would be if i went back to france in a bonnet this put a second reflection in my mind that if i were to separate from and his tell tale clothes i should be safe against arrest and might go openly about my business nor was this all for suppose i was arrested when i was alone there was little against me but suppose i was taken in company with the murderer my case would begin to be grave for generosity s sake i dare not speak my mind upon this head but i thought of	38
it none the less i thought of it all the more too when the brought out a green purse with four guineas in gold and the best part of another in small change true it was more than i had but then with less than five guineas had to get as far as france i with my less than two not beyond so that taking things in their proportion s society was not only a peril to my life but a burden on my purse but there was no thought of the sort in the honest head of my companion he believed he was serving helping and protecting me and what could i do but hold my peace and and take my chance of it o bin it s little said putting the purse in his pocket but it jl do my and now john erect if ye will hand me over my button this gentleman and me will be for taking the road but the after feeling about in a hairy purse that hung in front of him in the manner though he wore otherwise the habit witli began to roll his eyes strangely and at last her wiu loss it meaning he thought he had lost it what cried you will lose my that was my father s before me now i will tell yoa what is in my mind john it is in my mind this is the worst day s work that ever ye did since ye were born and as spoke he set his hands on liis knees and looked at the with a smiling mouth and that dancing light in his eyes that meant mischief to his enemies perhaps the was honest enough perhaps he had meant to cheat and then finding himself alone with two of in a desert place east back to honesty as being safer j at least and all at once he seemed to find that button and handed it to well and it is a good thing for the honour of the said and then to me here is my button back again and i thank you for parting with it which is of a piece with all your to me he took the warmest parting of the the flight in the for says he ye have done very well by me and set your neck at a venture and i will always give you the name of a good man lastly the took himself off by one way and and i getting our together struck into another to resume our flight o k chapter xxii the flight in the the more than eleven hours of incessant hard travelling brought us early in the morning to the end of a range of mountains in front of us there lay a piece of low broken desert land which we must now cross the sun was not long up and shone straight in our eyes a little thin mist went up from the face of the like a smoke so that as said there might have been twenty of there and we none the wiser we sat down therefore in a of the hill side till the mist should have risen and made ourselves a dish of and held a council of war david said this is the bit shall we lie here till it comes or shall we risk it and on ahead well said i i am tired indeed but i could walk as far again if that was all ay but it said nor yet the half this is how we stand s fair death to us to the south it s all and no to be thought of to the north well there s no to be gained by going north neither for you that wants to get to the flight in the nor yet for me that wants to get to france well then we u can strike east east be it says i quite cheerily but i was thinking in to myself oh man if you would only take one point of the compass and let me take any other it would be the best for both of us well then east ye see we have the said once there david its mere pitch and toss out on yon bald naked flat place where can a body turn to let the red coats come over a hill they can spy you miles away and the sorrow s in their horses they would soon ride you down it s no good place david j and i m free to say it s worse by daylight than by dark said i hear my way of it s death for us we have none too much money nor yet meal the longer they seek the nearer they may where we are it s all a risk and i give my word to go ahead until we was delighted there are said he when ye are altogether too and to be company for a gentleman like me but there come other when ye show a spark and it s then david that i love ye like a brother the mist rose and died away and showed us that country lying as waste as the sea only the and the crying upon it and far over to the east a herd of deer moving like much of it was red with much of the rest broken up with and and pools some had been burnt in a heath fire and in place there was quite a forest of dead like a looking t man never saw but at least it was clear oe which was our point we went down accordingly into the waste and i began to make our and travel towards the eastern verge there were the tops of mountains oil round you are to remember from whence we might be at any moment so it us	38
to keep in the hollow parts of the and when these turned aside our lo move upon its naked face with infinite care sometimes for half an hour together we must crawl from one bush to another as hunters do when they are bard upon the deer jt was a clear day again with a blazing sun the water in the brandy was soon gone and altogether if i had guessed what it would be to crawl half the time upon my belly and to walk much of the rest stooping nearly to the i should certainly have held back from such a killing ri e toiling and resting and toiling again we wore away the morning and about noon lay down in a thick bush of to sleep took the first watch and it to me i had scarce closed my eyes before i was shaken up to take the second we had no clock to go by and stuck a of heath in the ground to e instead so that as soon as the shadow of the bush i should fall so far to the east i might know to rouse the flight in the him but i was by this time so weary that i could have slept twelve hours at a stretch i had the taste of sleep in my throat my joints slept even when my mind was waking the hot smell of the and the of the wild bees were like to me and every now and again i would give a jump and find i had been the last time i woke i seemed to come back from further away and thought the sun had taken a great start in the heavens i looked at the of heath and at that i could have cried aloud for i saw i had betrayed my trust my head was nearly turned with fear and shame and at what i saw when i looked out around me on the my heart was like dying in my body for sure enough a body of horse soldiers had come down during my sleep and were drawing near to us from the south east spread out in the shape of a fan and riding their horses to and fro in the deep parts of the when i he glanced first at the soldiers then at the mark and the position of the sun and his brows with a sudden quick look both ugly and anxious which was all the reproach i had of him what are we to do now i asked we ll have to play at being said he do ye see yon mountain pointing to one on the sky ay said i well then says he let us strike for that its name is ben it is a wild desert mountain full oe hills and hollows and if we can win to it before the we may do yet but cried i that will take us across the very coming of the soldiers i ken that fine said he but if we are driven back on we are two dead men so now david man be brisk with that he began to run forward on his hands and knees with an incredible quickness as though it were his natural way of going all the time too he kept winding in and out in the lower parts of the where we were the best concealed some of these had been burned or at least with fire and there rose in our faces which were close to the ground a blinding choking dust as fine as smoke the water was long out and this posture of running on the hands and knees brings an weakness and weariness so that the joints ache and the wrists faint under your weight now and then indeed where was a big bush of we lay a while and panted and putting aside the leaves looked back at the they had not us for they held straight on a half troop i think covering about two miles of ground and beating it mighty thoroughly as they went i had awakened just in time a little later and we must have fled in front of them instead of escaping on one side even as it was the least misfortune might betray us and now the flight in the and again when a rose out of the with a clap of wings we lay as still as the dead and were afraid to breathe the aching and f of my body the of my heart the of my hands and the of my throat and eyes in the continual smoke of dust and ashes had soon grown to be so that i would gladly have given up nothing but the fear of lent me enough of a false kind of courage continue as for himself and you are to bear in mind that he was with a great he had first turned crimson but as time went on the began to be mingled with patches of white his breath cried and whistled as it came and his voice when he whispered his observations in my ear during our sounded like nothing human yet he seemed in no way dashed in spirits nor did he at all in his activity so that i was driven to marvel at the man s endurance at length in the first of the night we heard a trumpet sound and looking back from among the saw the troop beginning to collect a little after they had built a fire and for the night about the middle of the waste at this i begged and that we might lie down and sleep there shall be no sleep the night said from now on these weary of yours will keep the crown of the and none will get out of bnt winged fowls we got through in the nick of time aad	38
the and chattering to each other in the that was all the rest i had until the messenger returned when as it appeared that would be glad to receive us we must get once more upon our feet and set forward was in excellent good spirits much refreshed by his sleep very hungry and looking forward to a and a dish of hot of which it seems the messenger had brought him word for my part it made me sick to hear of eating i had been dead heavy before and now i felt a kind of dreadful lightness which would not suffer me to walk i drifted like a the ground seemed to me a cloud the hills a feather weight the air to have a current like a running bum which carried me to and fro with all that a sort of horror of despair sat on my mind so that i could have wept at my own helplessness i saw knitting his brows at me and supposed it was in anger and that gave me a pang of fear like what a child may have i remember too that i was smiling and could not stop smiling hard as i tried for i thought it was out of place at such a time but my good companion had nothing in his mind but kindness and the next moment two of the had me by the arms and i began to be carried forward with great swiftness or so it appeared to me although i dare say it was slowly enough in truth through a of dreary and hollows and into the heart of that dismal mountain of ben chapter s cage we came at last to the foot of an exceeding steep wood which scrambled up a and was crowned by a naked precipice it s here said one of the guides and we struck up hill the trees clung upon the slope like sailors on the of a ship and their trunks were like the rounds of a ladder by which we mounted quite at the top and just before the rocky face of the cliff sprang above the foliage we found that strange house which was known in the country as s cage the trunks of several trees had been across the intervals strengthened with and the ground behind this up with earth to make the floor a tree which grew out from the was the living centre beam of the roof the walls were of and covered with moss the whole house had something of an egg shape and it half hung half stood in that steep thicket like a s nest in a green within it was large enough to shelter five or six persons with some comfort a of the cliff had been employed to be the fireplace and the smoke rising against the face of the rock and being not in colour readily escaped notice from below this was but one of s hiding places he had besides and chambers in several parts of his country and following the reports of his he moved from one to another as the soldiers drew near or moved away by this manner of living and thanks to the affection of his he had not only stayed all this time in safety while so many others had fled or been taken and slain but stayed four or five years longer and only went to france at last by the express command of his master there he soon died and it is strange to reflect that he may have regretted his cage upon ben when we came to the door he was seated by his rock chimney watching a about some he was mighty plainly with a drawn over his ears and smoked a foul pipe for all that he had the manners of a king and it was quite a sight to see him rise out of his place to welcome us well mr come sir said he and bring in your friend that as yet i ken the name of and how is yourself said i hope ye do sir and i am proud to see ye and to present to ye my friend the of mr david s cage never referred to my estate without a touch of a sneer when we were alone but with ers he ran the words out like a herald step in by the both of ye gentlemen says i make ye welcome to my house which is a queer rude place for certain but one where i have entertained a royal personage mr ye doubtless ken the personage i have in my eye we ll take a for luck and as soon as this man of mine has the ready we ll dine and take hand at the as gentlemen should my life is a bit says he pouring out the brandy see little company and sit and my and mind upon a great day that is gone by and weary for another great day that we all hope will be upon the road and so here s a toast to ye the restoration i thereupon we all touched glasses and drank i am sure i wished no ill to king george and if he had been there himself in proper person it s like he would have done as i did no sooner had i taken out than i felt better and could look on and listen still a little perhaps but no longer with the same horror and distress of mind it was certainly a strange place and we had a strange host in his long hiding had grown to have all manner of precise habits like those of an old maid he had a particular place where no one else must sit the cage was arranged in a particular way which none must disturb was one of his chief fancies and p	38
even while he was greeting us in he kept an eye to the it appears he sometimes visited or received visits from his wife and one or two of his nearest friends under the cover of night but for the more part lived quite alone and communicated only with his and the that waited on him in the cage the first thing in the morning one of them who was a came and shaved him and gave him the news of the country of which he was greedy there was no end to his questions he put them as earnestly as a child and at some of the answers laughed out of all bounds of reason and would break out again laughing at the mere memory hours after the was gone to be sure there might have been a purpose in his questions for though he was thus and like the other landed gentlemen of scotland stripped by the late act of parliament of legal powers he still exercised a justice in his were brought in his hiding hole to be decided and the men of his country who would have snapped their fingers at the court of laid aside revenge and paid down money at the bare word of this and hunted when he was which was often enough he gave his commands and breathed threats of punishment like any king and his trembled and crouched away from him like children before a hasty father with each of them as he entered he s cage shook hands both parties touching their at the same time in a military manner altogether i had a fair chance to see some of the inner workings of a and this with a fugitive chief his country conquered the troops riding upon all sides in quest of him sometimes within a mile of where he lay and when the least of the ragged fellows whom he and threatened could have made a fortune by betraying him on that first day as soon as the were ready gave them with his own hand a squeeze of a for he was well supplied with luxuries and bade us draw in to our meal they said he meaning the are such as i gave his royal in this very house the for at that time we were glad to get the meat and never for kitchen indeed there were than in my country in the year forty six i do not know if the were truly very good but my heart rose against the sight of them and i could eat but little all the while entertained us with stories of prince s stay in the cage giving us the very words of the and rising from his place to show us where they stood by these i gathered the prince was a gracious spirited boy like the son of a race of polite kings but not so wise as solomon i gathered too that while he was in the cage he was often drunk so the fault that has since p bj all made such a wreck of him had even then begun to show itself we were no sooner done eating than brought out an greasy pack of cards such aa you may find in a mean inn and his eyes brightened in his face as he propose that we should fall to playing now this was one of the things i had been brought np to like disgrace it being held by my father neither the part of a christian nor yet of a gentleman to set his own and fish for that of others on he cast of painted to be sure i might have pleaded my fatigue which was excuse enough but thought it that i should bear a testimony i must have got very red in the face but i spoke steadily and told them i had no call to be a judge of others but for my own part it was a matter in which i had no clearness stopped mingling the cards wliat in e name is this says he talk is this for the house of i will put my hand in the fire for mr says he is an honest and a gentleman and i would have ye bear in mind who says it i bear a king s name says he his hat and i and any tliat i call friend are company for the best but the gentleman is tired and should sleep if he has no mind to the cart es it will never hinder you and me and tm fit and willing sir to play ye any game that ye can name s cage six says in this poor house of mine would have you to ken that any gentleman may follow his pleasure if your friend would like to stand on his head he is welcome and if either he or you or any other man is not satisfied i will be proud to step outside with him i had no will that these two friends should cut their throats for my sake sir said i i am very wearied as says and what s more as you are a man that likely has sons of your own i may tell you it was a promise to my father say say said and pointed me to a bed of in a comer of the cage for all that he was displeased enough looked at me and grumbled when he looked and indeed it must be owned that both my scruples and the words in which i declared them somewhat of the and were little in their place among wild what with the brandy and the a strange had come over me and i had scarce lain down upon the bed before i fell into a kind of trance in which i continued almost the whole time of our stay in the cage	38
sometimes i was broad awake and understood what passed sometimes i only heard voices or men like the voice of a silly river and the upon the wall down and swelled out again like shadows on the roof i must sometimes have spoken or cried out for i remember i waa now and then amazed at being answered yet i was conscious of no particular nightmare only of a general black abiding horror a horror of the i was in and the bed i lay in and the on the wall and the and tbe and myself the who was a doctor too was called in to for me but as he spoke in the i understood not a word of his opinion and was too sick even to ask for a translation i knew well enough i was ill and that waa all i cared about i paid little heed while i lay in this poor pass but and were most of the time at the cards and i am clear that must have begun by winning for i remember sitting up and seeing them hard at it and a great glittering pile of as much as sixty or a hundred guineas on the table it looked strange enough to see all this wealth in a nest upon a cliff side about growing trees and even then i thought it seemed deep water for to be riding who had no better battle horse than a green purse and a matter of five pounds the luck it changed on the second day about i was as usual for dinner and as usual refused to eat and was given a with some bitter which the had prescribed the sun was shining in at the open door of the cage and this dazzled and offended me sat at the table biting the pack of ds had stooped over the s cage bed and had his face close to my eyes to which troubled as they were with the fever it seemed of the most shocking he asked me for a loan of my money what for said i oh just for a loan said he but why m repeated i don t see hut david said ye grudge me a loan i would though if i had had my senses but all i thought of then was to get his face away and i handed him my money on the morning of the third day when we had been forty eight hours in the cage i awoke with a great relief of spirits very weak and weary indeed but seeing things of the right size and with their honest ance i had a mind to eat moreover rose from bed of my own movement and as soon as we had stepped to the entry of the cage and sat down outside in the top of the wood it was a grey day with a cool mild air and i sat in a dream all morning only disturbed by the passing by of s and servants coming with provisions and reports for as the coast was at that time clear you might almost say he held court openly when i returned he and had laid the cards aside and were questioning a and the chief turned about and spoke to me in the i have no sir said i the card question everything i said or did had the power of your name has more sense than yourself then said he angrily for it s good but the point ia this my all clear in the south and the question a have ye the strength to go i saw cards on the table but no gold only a heap of little written papers and these all on a side besides had an odd look like a man very well content and i began to have a strong i do not know if i am as weu as i should be said i looking at but the httle money we have has a long way to carry us took his under lip into his mouth and looked upon the ground david says he at last i ve lost it there s the naked truth my money too said i your money too says with a groan ye have given it me i m when i get to the said it was all it s all nonsense of course ye u have your back again and the double of it if ye ll make so free with me it would be a singular thing for me to keep it it s not to be supposed that i would be any i to gentlemen in your situation that would be a singular thing cries he and began to pull gold l out of pocket with a mighty red face s cage said nothing only looked on the ground will you step to the door with me sir said i said he would be very glad and followed me readily enough but he looked and put out and now sir says i i must first acknowledge your nonsense cries where s the generosity this is just a most affair but what would ye have me do up in this of a cage of mine but just set my friends to the when i can get them and if they lose of course it s not to be supposed and here he came to a pause yes said i if they lose you give them back their money and if they win they carry away yours in their i have said before that i grant your generosity but to me sir if s a very painful thing to be placed in this position there was a little silence in which seemed always as if he was about to speak but said nothing all the time he grew and in the face i am a	38
young man said i and i ask your advice advise me as you would your son my friend fairly lost this money after having fairly gained a far greater sum of yours can i accept it back again would that be the right part for me to play whatever i do you can see for yourself it must be hard upon a man of any pride it rather hard on me too mr said and ye give me very much the look of a man that has poor people to their hurt i have my friends come to any house of mine to accept no he cried with a sudden heat of anger nor yet to give them and so you see sir said i there is something to be said upon my side and this gambling is a very poor employ for but i am still waiting your opinion i am sure if ever hated any man it was david he looked me all over with a warlike eye and i saw the challenge at his lips but either my youth him or perhaps his own sense of justice certainly it was a matter for all concerned and not least for the more credit that he took it as he did mr said he i think you are too nice and but for all that you have the spirit of a very pretty gentleman upon my honest word ye may take this money it s what i would tell my son and here s my hand along with it chapter xxiv flight in the the quarrel and i were put across under cloud of and went down its eastern shore to another hiding place near the head of whither we were led by one of the from the cage this fellow carried all our luggage and s great coat in the bargain trotting along under the far less than the half of which used to weigh me to the ground like a stout hill pony with a feather yet he was a man that in plain contest i could have broken on my knee doubtless it was a great relief to walk and perhaps without that relief and the consequent sense of liberty and lightness i could not have walked at all i was but new risen from a bed of sickness and there was nothing in the state of our affairs to me for much exertion travelling as we did over the most dismal deserts in scotland under a cloudy heaven and with divided hearts among the travellers for long we said nothing marching alongside or one behind the other each with a set countenance ly angry and proud and drawing what strength i liad from these two violent and sinful feelings angry and ashamed ashamed that he lost mj money angry i that i should take it so ill the thought of a separation ran always the stronger in my mind and the more i approved of it the more ashamed i grew of my approval it would be a fine handsome generous thing indeed for to turn round and say to me go i am in the most danger and my company only yours but for me to turn to the friend who certainly loved me and say to him you are in great danger i am in but little your friendship is a burden j go take your risks and bear your hardships alone no that was impossible and even to think of it to myself made ray cheeks to burn and yet had behaved like a child and what is worse a treacherous child my money from me while i lay half conscious wa scarce than j and yet here he was by my side without a penny to his name and by what i could quite to upon the money he had driven me to beg true i was ready to share it with him but it made me rage to see him count upon my these were the two things uppermost in my mind and i open my mouth upon neither without black so i did the next worst and said nothing nor much as looked once at my companion save with the tail of mj eye the in the at last upon the other side of going over a smooth place where the walking was easy he could bear it no longer and came close to me david says he this is no way for two friends to take a small accident i have to say that i m sorry and so that s said and now if you have anything ye d better say it oh says i i have nothing he seemed disconcerted at which i was pleased no said he with rather a trembling voice but when i say i was to blame why of course ye were to blame said i coolly and you will bear me out that i have never reproached you never says he but ye ken very well that ye ve done worse are we to part ye said so once before are ye to say it again there s hills and enough between here and the two seas david and i will own i m no very keen to stay where i m no wanted this pierced me like a sword and seemed to lay bare my private i cried and then do you think i am one to turn my back on you in your chief need you t say it to my face my whole conduct s there to give the lie to it it s true i fell asleep upon the but that was from weariness and you do wrong to cast it up to me j which is what i never did said but aside from that i continued what have done that yoa should even me to dogs by such a supposition i never	38
yet failed a friend and it s not likely i ll begin with you there are between us that i can never forget even if you can i will only say this to ye david said very quietly that i have long been owing ye my life and now i owe ye money ye try to make that burden light for me this ought to have touched me and in a manner it did but the wrong manner i felt i was badly and was now not only angry with but angry with myself in the bargain and it made me the more cruel you asked me to speak said i well then i will you own yourself that you have done me a dis i have had to swallow an i have never reproached you i never named the thing till yoa did and now you blame me cried i because i laugh and sing as if i was glad to be the next thing will be that fm to go down upon my knees and thank you for it ye should think more of others if ye thought more of others ye would perhaps speak less about yourself and when a friend that you very well has passed over an offence without a word you would be to let it lie instead of making it a stick to break his back with by your own way of it it was you that was to blame then it be you to seek the quarrel the flight in thb said say and we fell back into our former silence and came to our s end and and lay down to sleep without another word the put us across in the dusk of the next day and gave us his opinion as to our best route this was to get us up at once into the tops of the mountains to go round by a circuit turning the heads of and and come down upon the by and the upper waters of the forth was little pleased with a route which led us through the country of his the he objected that by turning to the east we should come almost at once among the a race of his own name and although following a different chief and come besides by a far easier and way to the place whither we were bound but the who was indeed the chief man of s had good reasons to give him on all hands the force of troops in every district and finally as well as i could understand that we should nowhere be so little troubled as in a country of the gave way at last but with only half a heart it s one of the countries in scotland said he there s there that i ken but heath and and but i see that ye re a man of some penetration and be it as ye please we set forth accordingly by this and for the best part three nights travelled on mountains and among well heads wild rivers often in mist almost continually blown and rained upon and not once cheered by any glimpse of sunshine by day we lay and slept in the by night upon hills and among rude we often wandered we were n so involved in fog that we must lie quiet till it lightened a fire was never to be thought of our only food was and a portion of cold meat that we had carried from the cage and as for drink heaven knows we had no want of water this was a dreadful time rendered the more dreadful by the gloom of the weather and the country i was never warm my teeth in my head i was troubled with a very sore throat such as i bad on the isle i had a painful in side which never left me j and when i slept in my wet bed with the rain beating above and the mud below me it was to live over again in fancy the worst part of my adventures to see the tower of lit by lightning carried below on the men s backs dying on the round house floor or grasping at the bosom of hia coat from such broken i would l e aroused in the to sit up in the same where i bad slept and sup cold the rain driving sharp in my face or running down my back in icy the mist us like as in a gloomy chamber or perhaps flight in the if the wind blew falling suddenly apart and showing us the gulf of some dark valley where the streams were crying aloud the sound of an infinite number of rivers came up from all round in this steady rain the springs of the mountain were broken up every water like a every stream was in high and had filled and its channel during our night it was solemn to hear the voice of them below in the valleys now like thunder now with an angry cry i could well understand the story of the water that demon of the streams who is to keep wailing and roaring at the ford the coming of the doomed traveller i saw believed it or half believed it and when the cry of the river rose more than usually sharp i was little surprised though of course i would still be shocked to see him cross himself in the manner of the during all these horrid wanderings we had no familiarity scarcely even that of speech the truth is that i was sickening for my grave which is my best excuse but besides that i was of an disposition from my birth slow to take offence slower to forget it and now both against my companion and myself for the best part of two days he was kind silent indeed	38
but always ready to help and always hoping as i could very well see that my displeasure would blow by for the same length of time i stayed in myself nursing my anger roughly ix his services and him over with my eyes as if he ha been a or a the second or rather the peep o the third day found us upon a very open so that we could not follow our usual plan and lie down to eat and sleep before we had reached a place o shelter the grey had come pretty clear for though it still rained the clouds ran higher and looking in my face showed some marks of concern ye had better let me take your pack said he for perhaps the ninth time since we had parted from the beside i do very well i thank you said as cold as ice flushed darkly i ll not offer it again lie said i m not a patient man david i never said yon were said i which was exactly the rude speech of a boy of ten made no answer at the time but his conduct answered for him henceforth it is to be thought he quite forgave himself for the affair at a cocked bis hat again walked whistled airs and looked at me u one side with a provoking smile the third night we were to pass through the western end of the country of it came clear and cold with a touch in the air like frost and a wind that blew the clouds away and made the stars bright the streams were full of course and still made a great noise among the hills but i observed that thought no more the and was in high good the weight in the spirits as for me the change of weather came too late i had lain in the mire so long that as the bible has it my very clothes me i was dead deadly sick and full of pains and the chill of the wind went through me and the pound of it confused my ears in this poor state i had to bear from my companion something in the nature of a persecution he spoke a good deal and never without a was the best name he had to give me here he would say here s a for ye to jump my i ken you re a fine and so on all the time with a voice and face i knew it was my own doing and no one else s but i was too miserable to repent i felt i could drag myself but little farther pretty soon i must lie down and die on these wet mountains like a sheep or a fox and my bones must there like the bones of a beast my head was light perhaps but i began to love the prospect i began to glory in the thought of such a death alone in the desert with the wild my last moments would repent then i thought he would remember when i was dead how much he owed me and the remembrance would be torture so i went like a sick silly and bad hearted feeding my anger against a fellow man when i would have been better on my knees crying on god for mercy and at each of s i myself ah thinks i to myself i have a better in readiness when i lie down and die you will feel it like a in your ah what a revenge i ah low you will regret your ingratitude and cruelty i all the while i was growing worse and worse i had fallen my legs simply under me and this had struck for the moment but i was so briskly and set again with such a natural manner that he soon forgot the incident of heat went over me and then of shuddering the in my side was hardly at last i began to feel that i could trail myself no farther and with that there came on me all at once the wish to have it out with let my anger blaze and be done with my life in a more sudden manner he had just called me i stopped mr said i in a voice that quivered like a fiddle string you are older than i am and should know your manners do you think it either very wise or very witty to my in my teeth i thought where folk differed it was the part of gentlemen to differ and if i did not i may tell you i could find a better than some of yours had stopped opposite to me his hat cocked bis hands in his breeches pockets his head a little on one side he listened smiling as i could see by the and when i had done he began to whistle a air it was the air made in mockery of general cope s defeat at hey cope are ye and ore your drums a yet the flight in the and it came in my mind that on the day of that battle had been engaged upon the royal side why do ye take that air mr said i is that to remind me you have been beaten on both sides the air stopped on s lips david i said he but it s time these manners ceased i continued and i mean you shall henceforth speak of my king and my good friends the am a began oh says i i ken ye bear a king s name but you are to remember since i have been in the i have seen a good many of those that bear it and the best i can say of them is this that they would be none the worse of washing do you know that you insult me said	38
very low i am sorry for that said i for i am not done and if you the sermon i doubt the will please you as little you have been chased in the field by the grown men of my party it seems a poor kind of pleasure to a boy both the and the have beaten you you have run before them like a hare it you to speak of them as of your stood quite still the tails of his great coat clapping behind him in the wind this is a pity he said at last there are things said that cannot be passed over a second sermon is i i never asked to said i am as ready aa yourself ready said he ready i repeated i am no and like some that i could name come on i and drawing my i fell on guard as himself had taught me david he cried are ye i draw i upon ye david it s fair murder that was your look out when you insulted me aid i it s the truth cried and he stood for a moment wringing his month in his hand like a man in i sore perplexity it s the bare truth he said and i drew his but before i could touch his blade with mine he had thrown it from him and fallen to the ground na na he kept saying na na i i at this the last of my anger all out of me ind i found myself only sick and sorry and blank and at myself i would have given the world to back what i had said but a word once spoken p who re it i minded me of all s kindness and courage in the past how he had helped and cheered and home with me in our evil days and then recalled my own and saw that i for ever that friend at the same e the sickness that hung upon me seemed to and the pang in my side was like a sword the plight in thk for i thought i must have where i stood this it was that gave me a thought no apology could blot out what i had said it was needless to think of one none could cover the offence but where an apology was vain a mere cry for help might bring back to my side i put my pride away from me i said if you help me i must just die here he started up sitting and looked at me it s true said i tm by with it oh let me get into the of a house i ll can die there easier i had no need to pretend whether i chose or not i spoke in a weeping voice that would have melted a heart of stone can ye walk asked no said i not without help this last hour my legs have been fainting under me i ve a in my side like a red hot iron i breathe right if i die ye ll can forgive me in my heart i liked ye fine even when i was the cried say that i david man ye ken he shut his mouth upon a sob let me get my arm about ye he continued s the now lean upon me hard where there s a house we re in too there should be no want of houses no nor friends houses here do ye gang easier so ay i i can be doing this way and i his arm with my again he came near sobbing da ie said he i m no a right man at all i have neither sense nor i remember ye were just a i see ye were dying on your feet ye u have to try and foi ive me oh man let s say no more about it said i we re neither one of us to mend the other that s the truth we must just bear and forbear man t oh but my ia sore i is there house find a house to ye david he said stoutly we ll follow down the burn where there s bound to be houses my poor man will ye no be better on my back ob says i and me a good twelve inches taller ye re no a thing cried with a start there may be a trifling matter of an inch or two i m no saying i m just exactly what ye would call a tall man whatever and i dare say he added bis voice off in a manner now when i come to think of it i dare say ye u be jest about right ay if ii be a foot or near hand or may be even it was sweet and to hear eat his words up in the fear of some fresh quarrel i could have laughed had not my caught me so hard j the flight in the but if i had lied i think i must have wept too cried i what makes ye so good to me what makes ye care for such a fellow deed and i don t know said for just precisely what i thought i liked about ye was that ye never quarrelled and now i like ye better chapter xxv in at the door of the first house we came to knocked which was no very safe enterprise in such a part of the as the of no great held rule there it was filled and disputed by small and broken and what they call folk driven into the wild country about the springs of forth and by the advance of the here were and which came to the same thing for the followed s chief in war and made but one with here too	38
were many of that old nameless red handed of the they had always been ill considered and now worse than ever having credit with no side or party in the whole country of scotland their chief of was in exile the more immediate leader of that part of them about james more rob s eldest son lay waiting his trial in castle they were in ill blood with and with the the and the and who took up the quarrel of any friend however distant was extremely to avoid them chance served us very well for it was a household of that we found where was not only welcome for his name s sake but known by reputation here then i was got to bed without delay and a doctor fetched who found me in a sorry plight but whether because he was a very good doctor or i a very young strong man i lay bed ridden for no more than a week and before a month i was able to take the road again with a good heart all this time would not leave me though i often pressed him and indeed his in staying was a common object of with the two or three friends that were let into the secret he hid by day in a hole of the under a little wood and at night when the coast was clear would come into the house to visit me i need not say if i was pleased to see him mrs our hostess thought nothing good enough for such a guest and as which was the name of our host had a pair of pipes in his house and was much of a lover of music the time of my recovery was quite a festival and we commonly turned night into day the soldiers let us be although once a party of two companies and some went by in the bottom of the valley where i could see them through the window as i lay in bed what was much more astonishing no magistrate came near me and there was no question put of whence i came or whither i was going and in that time of excitement i was as free of all inquiry as though i had lain in a yet my presence was known before i left to all the people in and the adjacent parts j many coming about the house on visits and these after the custom of the country spreading the news among their neighbours the bills too bad now been printed there was one pinned near the foot of my bed where i could read my own not very flattering portrait and in larger characters the of the blood money that had been set upon my life and the rest tbat knew that i bad come there in s company could have entertained no doubt oe who i was and many others must have had their guess for though i had changed my clothes i could not change my age or person and boys of eighteen were not so in these parts of the world and above all about that time tbat they could fail to one thing with another and connect me with the bill so it was at least other folk keep a secret among two or three near friends and somehow it out but among these it is told to a whole and they will keep it for a century there was but one thing happened worth and tbat is the visit i had of robin one of the of the notorious rob he was sought all sides on a charge of carrying a young woman from and marrying her aa was alleged by force j yet he stepped about like a gentleman in his walled policy it was he who had shot at tbe plough a quarrel never satisfied in yet he walked into the house of his blood enemies as a rider might into a public inn had time to pass me word of who it was and we looked at one another in concern you should understand it was then close upon the time of s coming the two were little likely to agree and yet if we sent word or sought to make a signal it was sure to arouse suspicion in a man under so dark a cloud as the he came in with a great show of civility but like a man among took his bonnet to mrs but clapped it on his head again to speak to and having thus set himself as he would have thought in a proper light came to my bedside and bowed i am given to know sir says he that your name is they call me david said i at your service i would give ye my name in return sir ho replied but it s one somewhat blown upon of late days and if perhaps suffice if i tell ye that i am own brother to james more or of whom ye will scarce have failed to hear no sir said i a little alarmed nor yet of your father and i sat up and bowed in bed for i thought best to compliment him in case he was proud of having had an to his father he bowed in return but what i am come to say sir be on is this in the year ray raised a part of the and marched to strike a stroke for the side and the surgeon that marched our and my brother s leg when it was broken in the brush at was a gentleman of the same name precisely as yourself he was brother to of and if you in any reasonable degree of one of that gentleman s kin have come to put myself and my people at your command you are to remember that i knew no more of my descent	38
than any s dog my uncle to be sure had of some of our high connections but nothing to the present purpose and there was nothing left me but that bitter disgrace of that i could not tell robin told me shortly he was sorry he had put himself about turned his back upon me without a sign of salutation and as he went towards the door z could hear him telling that i was only some that didn t know his own father angry as was at these ds and ashamed of my own ignorance i could keep from smiling that a man who was under the lash of the law aod was indeed hanged some three years later should he bo nice as to the descent of hid just in the door he met coming in and the two drew back and looked at each other like strange dogs they were neither of them big men but they seemed fairly to swell out with pride each wore a in sword and by a movement of his thrust clear the of it so that it might be the more readily grasped and the blade drawn mr i am says robin mr it s not a name to be ashamed of answered i did not know ye were in my country sir says robin it sticks in my mind that i am in the country of my friends the says that s a point returned the other there may be two words to say to that but i think i will have heard that you are a man of your sword unless ye were born deaf mr ye will have heard a good deal more than that says i am not the only man that can draw steel in and when my and captain had a talk with a gentleman of your name not so many years back i could never hear that the had the best of it do ye mean my father sir says robin well i wonder said the gentleman i have in my mind had the ill taste to clap to his name my father was an old man returned robin the match was unequal you and me would make a better pair sir i was thinking that said i was half out of bed and had been hanging at the elbow of these fighting ready to upon the least occasion but that word was it was a case of now or never and with something of a white face to be sure himself between gentlemen said he i will have been of a very matter here are my pipes and here are you two gentlemen who are it s an dispute which one of ye s the best here will be a chance to settle it why sir said still addressing from whom indeed he had not so much as shifted his eyes nor yet robin from him why sir says i think i will have heard some of the sort have ye music as folk say are ye a bit of a i can pipe uke a cries and that is a very bold word i have made bolder words good before now returned and that against better it is easy to try that says made haste to bring out the pair of pipes that was bis principal possession and to set before his guests a mutton ham and a bottle of that drink which they call and which is made of old strained honey and cream slowly beaten together in the right order and proportion the two enemies were still on the very of a quarrel but down they eat one upon each side of the with a mighty show of politeness pressed them to taste bis mutton ham and the wife s in reminding them the wife was out of and had a name far and wide for her skill in that but robin put aside these as bad for the breath i would have ye to remark sir said that i broken bread for near upon ten hours which will be worse for the breath than any in scotland i will take no advantages mr replied robin eat and drink til follow you each ate a small portion of the ham and drank a glass of the to mrs and then after a great number of robin took the pipes and played a little spring in a very manner ay ye can blow said and taking the instrument from his rival he first played the same spring in a manner identical with robin s and then wandered into variations which as he went on he decorated with a perfect flight of grace notes such as love and call the i had been pleased with robin s playing s me that s no very bad mr said the rival but ye show a poor device in your me cried the blood starting to his face i give ye the lie do ye own yourself beaten at the pipes then said robin that ye seek to change them for the sword and tliat s very well said mr returned and in the meantime laying a accent on the word i take back the lie i appeal to indeed ye need appeal to said robin ye re a far better judge than any in for it s a god s truth that you re a very creditable for a hand me the pipes did as he asked and robin proceeded to and correct some part of s variations which it seemed that he remembered perfectly ay ye have music said gloomily and now be the judge yourself mr said robin and taking up the variations from the beginning he worked them throughout to so new a purpose with such ingenuity and sentiment and with so odd a fancy and so quick a in the grace notes that i was amazed to hear him	38
as for his face grew dark and hot and he sat and his fingers like a man under some deep enough he cried ye can blow the pipes make the most of that and he made as if to rise but robin only held out his hand as if to ask for silence and struck into the slow measure of a it was a fine piece of music in itself and nobly played but it seems besides it was a piece peculiar to the and a chief favourite with the first notes were scarce out before there came a change in his face when the time quickened he seemed to grow in his seat and long before that piece was at in z an the last signs of his anger died from him and he had no thought but for the music robin he said when it was done ye are a great i am not fit to blow in the same ti with ye body of me ye have music in than i have in my head and though it still sticks in my mind that i could maybe show ye of it with the cold steel i warn ye before hand it u no be fair i it would go against my heart to a man that can blow the pipes as you can i thereupon that quarrel was made up all night long the was going and the pipes changing hands and the day had come pretty bright and the three men were none the better for what they had been taking before robin as much as thought upon the road it was the last i saw of him for i was in the low countries at the university of when he stood his trial and was hanged in the and i have told this at so great length partly because it was the last incident of any note that me on the wrong side of the line and partly because as the man came to be hanged it s in a manner history ii chapter xxvi end of the flight we pass the the month as i have said was not yet out but it was already far through august and beautiful warm weather with every sign of an early and great harvest when i was pronounced able for my journey our money was now run to so low an ebb that we must think first of all on speed for if we came not soon to mr s or if when we came there he should fail to help me we must surely starve in s view besides the hunt must have now greatly and the line of the forth and even bridge which is the main pass over that river would be watched with little interest it s a chief principle in military affairs said he to go where ye are least expected forth is our trouble ye ken the saying forth the wild well if we seek to creep round about the head of that river and come down by or it s just precisely there that they ll be looking to lay hands on us but if we on straight to the of i ll lay my sword they let us pass the first night accordingly we pushed to the house of a in a friend of s where we pass the forth we slept the twenty first of the month and whence we set forth again about the fall of night to make another easy stage the twenty second we lay in a bush on a in within view of a herd of deer the happiest ten hours of sleep in a fine breathing sunshine and on bone dry ground that i have ever tasted that night we struck and followed it down and coming to the edge of the hills saw the whole of as flat as a with the town and castle on a hill in the midst of it and the moon shining on the links of forth now said i if ye care but ye re in your own land again we passed the line in the first hour and now if we could but pass yon crooked water we might cast our in the air in water near by where it falls into the forth we found a little sandy overgrown with and the like low plants that would just cover us if we lay flat here it was we made our camp within plain view of castle whence we could hear the drums beat as some part of the garrison worked all day in a field on one side of the river and we could hear the stones going on the hooks and the voices and even the words of the men talking it to lie close and keep silent but the sand of the little isle was sun warm the green plants gave us shelter for our heads we had food and drink in plenty and to crown all we were within sight of safety as soon as the quit their work and the l dusk began to fall we ashore and for the i bridge of keeping to the fields and under the i field fences the bridge is close under the castle hill an old high i narrow bridge with along the j and may conceive with how much interest i looked upon it not only aa a place famous in history but as the very doors of salvation to and myself the moon was not yet up when we came there a few lights shone along the front of the fortress and lower down a few lighted windows in the town but it was all mighty i still and there seemed to he no guard upon the passage i was for pushing straight across j but was i more wary it looks quiet said he but for all	38
he tapping on the bread and cheese to he sure said i and a she was ye thought that cries be man david that s good news in the name of all that s wonderful why so says i what good can that do well with one of droll looks i was rather in hopes it would maybe get us that boat if it were the other way about it would be it said i that s all that you ken yo see said i don t want the to fall in love with ye i want her to be sorry for ye david to which end there is no manner of need that she should take you for a ix me looking me curiously over i wish yo were a pass the forth thing paler but apart from that ye l do fine for my purpose ye have a fine hang dog rag and kind of a look to ye as if ye had stolen the coat from a come right about and back to the change house for that boat of ours i followed him laughing david said he ye re a very funny gentleman by your way of it and this is a very funny employ for ye no doubt for all that if ye have any affection for my neck to say nothing of your own ye will perhaps be kind enough to take this matter i am going to do a bit of play acting the bottom ground of which is just exactly as serious as the gallows for the pair of us so bear it if ye please in mind and conduct yourself according well well said i have it as you will as we got near the he made me take his arm and hang upon it like one almost helpless with weariness and by the time he pushed open the door he seemed to be half carrying me the maid appeared surprised as well she might be at our speedy return but had no words to spare for her in explanation helped me to a chair called for a of brandy with which he fed me in little and then breaking up the bread and cheese helped me to eat it like a nursery the whole with that grave concerned affectionate countenance that might have imposed upon a judge it was small wonder if the maid were taken with the picture we presented of a poor fl lad and his most tender comrade she drew quite near and stood leaning with her back on the next table what s like wrong with him said she at last turned upon her to my great wonder with a kind of fury wrong cries he he s walked more hundreds of miles than he h upon hia and slept of in wet than dry sheets wrong she wrong enough i would think wrong indeed and he kept grumbling to himself as he fed me like a man hi pleased he s for the like of that said the maid young said with his to her he would be better riding says she and where could i get a horse to him cried turning on her with the same appearance of fury ye have me steal i thought this would have sent her off in as indeed it closed her mouth for the time but my companion knew very well what he was doing and for as simple as ho was in some things oe life had a great fund o in such affairs as these ye tell me she said at last ye re well said softened a little i believe his will by this comment and suppose we were did ever yon hear that put money in folk s pockets she sighed at this as if she were herself some we pass the forth great lady no says she that s true indeed i was all this while at the part i played and sitting tongue tied between shame and merriment but somehow at this i could hold in no longer and bade let me be for i was better already my voice stuck in my throat for i ever hated to take part in lies but my very embarrassment helped on the plot for the no doubt set down my voice to sickness and fatigue has he friends said she in a tearful voice that has he so i cried if we could but win to them friends and rich friends beds to lie in food to eat doctors to see to him and here he must tramp in the and sleep in the like a and why that says the my dear says i very safely say but i ll tell ye what i ll do instead says he i ll whistle ye a bit tune and with that he leaned pretty far over the table and in a mere breath of a whistle but with a wonderful pretty sentiment gave her a few bars of is my darling says she and looked over her shoulder to the door that s it said and him so young i cries the he s old enough to and struck forefinger on the back part of his neck meaning that was old enough to lose my head it would be a black she high it s what will he though said unless we m the better at this the turned and ran out of that part of the house leaving us alone together in high good humour at the of his schemes and i in bitter at being called a and like a child i cried can stand no more of this ye jl have to sit it then said he for if ye upset the pot now ye may scrape your own life out of the file but is a dead man this was so true that i could only	38
groan and even my groan served s purpose for it was overheard by the as she came flying in again with a dish of white and a bottle of strong ale poor lamb says she and had no sooner set the meat before us than she touched me on the shoulder with a little friendly touch as much as to bid me cheer up then she told us to fall to and there would be no more to pay for the inn was her own or at least her father s and he was gone for the day to we waited tor no second bidding for bread and cheese is but cold comfort and the smelt well and while we sat and ate she took up that same place by the next table looking on and thinking and we pass the forth frowning to herself and drawing the string of her apron through her hand i m thinking ye have rather a long tongue she said at last to ay said but ye see i ken the folk i speak to i would never betray ye said she if ye mean that no said he ye re not that kind but tell ye what ye would do ye would help i said she shaking her head na i no said he but if ye could she answered him nothing look here my said there are boats in the kingdom of for i saw two no less upon the beach as i came in by your town s end now if we could have the use of a boat to pass under cloud of night into and some secret decent kind of a man to bring that boat back again and keep his counsel there would be two souls saved mine to all his to a dead if we lack that boat we have but three shillings left in this wide world and where to go and how to do and what other place there is for us except the chains of a i give you my naked word i i shall we go wanting are ye to lie in your warm bed and think upon us when the wind in the chimney and the rain on the roof are ye to eat your meat by the cheeks of a red fire and think upon this poor sick lad of mine biting his finger ends on a for and hunger sick or sound he must aye be moving with the death at his throat he must aye be trailing in the rain on the roads and when he lis last on a of there will be friends near him but only me and god at this appeal i could see the was in great trouble of mind being tempted to help us and yet in some fear she might be helping and so now i determined to step in myself and to her scruples with a portion of the truth did ever you hear said i of mr of the the writer said she i that well said i it s to his door that i am bound so you may judge by that if i am an ill and i will tell you more that though i am indeed by a dreadful error in some peril of my life king george has no truer friend in all scotland than myself her face cleared up at this although s darkened that s more than i would ask said she mr is a man and she bade us finish our meat get clear of the as soon as might be and lie close in the bit wood on the sea beach and ye can trust me says she i ll find some means to put you over pass the forth at this we waited for no more but shook hands with her upon the bargain made short work of the and set forth again from as far as to the wood it was a small piece of perhaps a score of elders and and a few young ashes not thick enough to veil us from by upon the road or beach here we must lie however making the best of the brave warm weather and the good hopes we now had of a and planning more particularly what remained for us to do we had but one trouble all day when a strolling came and sat in the same wood with us a eyed drunken dog with a great bottle of in his pocket and a long story of wrongs that had been done him by all sorts of persons from the lord president of the court of who had denied him justice down to the of who had given him more of it than he desired it was impossible but he should conceive some suspicion of two men lying all day concealed in a thicket and having no business to as long as he stayed there he kept us in hot water with questions and after he was gone as he was a man not very likely to hold his tongue we were in the greater impatience to be gone ourselves the day came to au end with the same brightness the night fell quiet and clear lights came out in houses and and then one after another began to be put out but it was past eleven and we were long z strangely tortured with before we heard the grinding of upon the pins at tha t we looked out and saw the coming to us in a boat she had trusted no one with our not even her if she had one but as soon as her father was asleep had left the house by a window stolen a neighbour s boat and come to our assistance i was abashed how to find for my but she was no less abashed at the thought of hearing	38
them begged ns to lose no time and to hold our peace saying very properly that the heart of our matter was in haste and silence and so what with one thing and another she had set us on the shore not far from had shaken hands with us and was out again at sea and for before there was one said either of her service or our gratitude even after she was gone we had nothing to say as indeed nothing was enough for such a kindness only stood a great while upon the shore shaking his head it is a very fine he said at last david it is a very fine and a matter of an hour later as we were lying in a den on the and i had been already he broke out again in of her character for my part i could say nothing she was so simple a creature that my heart smote me both with remorse and fear remorse because we had upon her ignorance and fear lest we should have anyway involved her in the dangers of our situation chapter i come to mr the nest day it was agreed that should for himself till sunset but as soon as it began to grow dark he should lie in the fields by the roadside near to and stir for naught until he heard me whistling at first i proposed i should give him for a signal the house of which was a favourite of mine but he objected that as the piece was very commonly known any might whistle it by accident and taught me instead a little fragment of a air which has run in my head from that day to this and will likely run in my head when i lie dying every time it comes to me it takes me off to that last day of my uncertainty with sitting up in the bottom of the den cling and beating the measure with a finger and the grey of the dawn coming on his face i was in the long street of before the sun was up it was a fairly built the houses of good stone many the town hall not so fine i thought as that of nor yet the street so noble but take it altogether it put me to shame for my foul as the morning went on and the fires began to be i r i kindled and the windows to open and tlie people to appear oat o the my concern and despondency grew ever the i saw now that i had no grounds to stand upon and no clear proof of my rights nor so much as o my own identity if it was all a i was indeed sorely cheated and left in a sore pass even i things were as i conceived it would in take time to establish my and what time had i to spare with less than three shillings in my pocket and a condemned hunted man upon my hands to ship out of the truly if ray broke with me it might come to the gallows yet for both of ua and as i continued to walk up and down and saw people looking at me upon the street or out of windows and or speaking one to another with smiles i began to take a fresh apprehension that it might be no easy matter even to come to speech of the lawyer far less to convince him of my story for the life of me i could not muster up the courage to address any of these i thought shame even to speak with them in such a of rags and dirt and if i had asked for the house o such a man as mr i supposed they would have burst out laughing in my face so i went up and down and through the street and down to the a dog that has lost its master with a strange in my and every now and then a movement of despair it grew to he high day at last perhaps nine in the and i worn with come to mr e wanderings and chanced to have stopped in front of a very good house on the side a house with beautiful clear glass windows knots upon the the walls new and a chase dog sitting yawning on the step like one that was at home well i was even this dumb brute when the door fell open and there issued forth a shrewd ruddy kindly man in a well powdered wig and spectacles i was in such a plight that no one set eyes on me once but he looked at me again and this gentleman as it proved was so much struck with my poor appearance that he came straight up to me and asked me what i did i told him i was come to the on business and taking heart of grace asked him to direct me to the house of mr why said he that is his house that i have just come out of and for a rather singular chance i am that very man then sir said i i have to beg the of an interview i do not know your name said he nor yet your face my name is david said i david he repeated in rather a high tone like one surprised and where have you come from mr david he asked looking me pretty in the face newly rough ch t i come from a great many strange places ir said i but i think it would be as well to tell you where and how in a more private manner he seemed to muse awhile holding his lip in his hand and looking now at me and now upon the of the street yes he that will be the beat	38
no doubt and he led me back with him into his house cried out bo some one whom i could not see that he would be engaged all morning and brought me into a little dusty chamber full of books and documents here he down and bade me be seated though i thought he looked a little from his clean chair to my muddy rags and now says he if you have any business pray be brief and come swiftly to the point ah do yon understand that says he with a keen look i will even do as says sir i answered smiling and carry you in he nodded as if be was well pleased and indeed his scrap of latin had been set to test me for all that and though i was somewhat encouraged the blood came in my face when i added have reason to believe myself some rights on the of he got a paper book out of a drawer and set it before him open well said he but i had shot my bolt and sat speechless come come mr said he you continue were you born i come to mr in dean sir said i the year the th of march he seemed to follow this statement in his paper book but what that meant i knew not your father and mother said he my father was alexander of that place said i and my mother grace i think her people were from have you any papers proving your identity asked mr no sir said i but they are in the hands of mr the minister and could be readily produced mr too would give me his word and for that matter i do not think my uncle would deny me meaning mr says he the same said i whom you have seen he asked by whom i was received into his own house i answered did you ever meet a man of the name of asked mr i did so sir for my sins said i for it was by his means and the of my uncle that i was within sight of this town carried to sea suffered and a hundred other hardships and stand before you to day in this poor you say you were said where was that off the south end of the isle of said i name of the isle on which i was cast up is the island ear ah t says he smiling you are deeper than mo in the geography but so far i may tell you thia pretty exactly with other that i hold but you say you were in what sense in the plain meaning of the word sir said i i was on my way to your house when i was on the cruelly struck down thrown below and knew no more of anything till we were far at sea i was destined for the a fate that in god s providence i have escaped the was lost on june the th says he looking in his hook and we are now at august the th here is a considerable mr of near upon two it has already caused a vast amount of trouble to your friends and i own i not be very well contented until it is set right indeed sir said i these mouths are very easily filled up but yet before i told my story i would be glad to know that i was to a friend thia is to argue in a circle said the lawyer i be convinced till i have heard you i cannot be your friend till i am properly informed if you were more it would better your time of life and you know mr we have a proverb in tlie country that s are aye evil you are not to forget sir said i that i have suffered by my aud was come to mi off to be a slave by the very man that if i rightly understand is your employer all this while i had been gaining ground with mr and in proportion as i gained ground gaining confidence but at this sally which i made with something of a smile myself he fairly laughed aloud no no said he it is not so bad as that non sum i was indeed your uncle s man of business but while you remote were in the west a good deal of water has run under the bridges and if your ears did not sing it was not for lack of being talked about on the very day of your sea disaster mr stalked into my office demanding you from all the winds i had never heard of your existence but i had known your father and from matters in my to be touched upon hereafter i was disposed to fear the worst mr admitted having seen you declared what seemed improbable that he had given you considerable sums and that you had started for the continent of europe intending to fulfil your education which was probable and how you had come to send no word to mr he that you had expressed a great desire to break with your past life further where you now were protested ignorance but believed you were in that is a close sum of his replies i am not exactly sure that any one believed him continued mr with a smile and in particular he so much some s of mine that in a word he me to the door we were then at a full stand for whatever shrewd we might entertain we had no shadow of in the very article comes captain with the story of your drowning whereupon all through with no consequences hut concern to mr injury to my pocket and another blot upon your uncle s character which could very ill afford it and now mr said he	38
you understand the whole process of these matters and can judge for yourself to what extent i may be trusted indeed he was more than i can represent him and placed more scraps of latin in his speech but it was all uttered with a fine o eye and manner which went far to conquer my distrust moreover i could see he now treated me as if i was myself beyond a doubt so that first point of my identity seemed fully granted sir said i if i tell you my story i must commit a friend s life to your discretion pass me your word it shall be sacred and for what touches myself i will ask no better than just your face he passed me his word very seriously but said he these are rather alarming and if there are in your story any little to the law i would beg you to bear in mind that i am a lawyer and pass lightly thereupon i told him my story from the first he listening with his thrust up and his eyes i come to mr closed so that i sometimes feared he was asleep but no such matter he heard every word as i found afterward with such quickness of hearing and precision of memory as often surprised me even strange names heard for that time only he remembered and would remind me of years after yet when i called in full we had an odd scene the name of had of se rung through scotland with the news of the murder and the offer of the reward and it had no sooner escaped me than the lawyer moved in his seat and opened his eyes i would name no unnecessary names mr said he above all of many of whom are to the law well it might have been better not said i but since i have let it slip i may as well continue not at all said mr i am somewhat dull of hearing as you may have remarked and i am far from sure i caught the name exactly we will call your friend if you please mr that there may be no reflections and in future i would take some such way with any that you may have to mention dead or alive by this i saw he must have heard the name all too clearly and had already guessed i might be coming to the murder if he chose to play this part of ignorance it was no matter of mine so i smiled said it was no very sounding name and consented through all the rest of my story was mr which v the ae it was a piece of policy after his own heart james in like waa mentioned under the style of mr s passed as a mr and to when i to that part of my tale i gave the name of mr a chief it was the most open farce and i wondered that the lawyer should care to keep it up but after all it was quite in the taste of that age when there were two parties in the state and quiet persons with no very high opinions of their own sought out every to avoid offence to either well well said the lawyer when i had quite done tliis is a great a great of you must tell it sir in a sound when your is or in english if you please though for my part i prefer the stronger tongue you have rolled much o in what parish in scotland to make a homely translation has not been filled with your wanderings yon have shown besides a singular for getting into false positions and yes upon the whole for well in them this mr seems to me a gentleman of some choice qualities though perhaps a trifle bloody minded it would please me none the worse if with all his merits he were jn tlie north sea for the man mr david is a sore embarrassment but you are doubtless quite right to to him he to you it we may say he was your true companion nor sa for i comb to mr i you would both take an thought upon the gallows well well these days are fortunately by and i think speaking that you are near the end of your troubles as he thus on my adventures he looked upon me with so much humour and that i could scarce contain my satisfaction i had been so long wandering with lawless people and making my bed upon the hills and under the bare sky that to sit once more in a clean covered house and to talk with a gentleman in seemed mighty even as i thought so my eye fell on my and i was once more plunged in confusion but the lawyer saw and understood me he rose called over the stair to lay another plate for mr would stay to dinner and led me into a bedroom in the upper part of the house here he set before me water and soap and a comb and laid out some clothes that belonged to his son and here with another he left me to my toilet chapter go in of my r i what change i could in my appearance and i was i to look iu the glass and find the a thing of the past and david come to life again and yet i was ashamed of the change too and ive all of the borrowed clothes when i had done mr caught me on the stair made me hia compliments and had me again into the cabinet sit ye down mr david said he and now that you are looking a little more like yourself let me see if i can find yon any news you be	38
court for mark you here mr david we could no doubt find some men of the who would swear to your but once they were in tho box we could no longer check their testimony and some word of your friend mr must certainly crop out which from what you have let fall i cannot think to be desirable well sir said i here is my way of it and i opened my plot to him but this would seem to involve my the man says he when i bad done i think indeed sir said i dear doctor cries he rubbing his brow dear doctor no mr david i am afraid your la i say nothing against your friend mr i know nothing against him and if i did mark this mr david it would be my duty to lay bands on bim now i it to you is it wise to meet he may have matters to his charge he may not told you all his name may not be even cries the lawyer twinkling for some of these fellows will pick up names by the roadside as another would gather i go in quest op my inheritance you must be the judge sir said i but it was clear my plan had taken hold upon his fancy for he kept musing to himself till we were called to dinner and the company of mrs and that lady had scarce left us again to ourselves and a bottle of wine ere he was back on my proposal when and where was i to meet my friend mr j was i sure of mr t s discretion supposing we could catch the old fox would i consent to such and such a term of an agreement these and the like questions he kept asking at long intervals while ho thoughtfully rolled his wine upon his tongue when i had answered all of th m seemingly to his contentment he fell into a still deeper muse even the being now then he got a sheet of paper and a pencil and set to work writing and weighing every word and at last touched a bell and had his clerk into the chamber said he i must have this written out fair against to night and when it is done you will be so kind as put on your hat and be ready to come along with this gentlemen and me for you will probably be wanted as a witness what sir cried i as soon as the clerk was gone are you to venture it why so it would appear says he filling his glass but let us speak no more of business the very sight of brings in my head a little droll matter of some years ago when i had made a with the poor at the cross of each had gone his t proper aud and when it came four o clock had been taking a glass and did not know his master and i who had forgot my was so blind them that i give you my word i did not know my own and thereupon he laughed heartily i said it was an odd and smiled out of but what held me all the afternoon in wonder he kept returning and dwelling on this story and telling it again with fresh details and laughter so that i began at last to be quite put oi countenance and feel ashamed for my friend s folly towards the time i had appointed with we bet ont from the house mr and i arm in arm and following behind with the deed in his pocket and a covered basket in his hand all through the town the lawyer was bowing right and left and continually being button by gentlemen on matters of or private business and i could see he was one greatly looked up to in the county at last we were clear of the houses and began to go along the side of the haven and towards the inn and the pier the scene of my misfortune i could not look upon the place without emotion recalling how many that had been there with me that day were now no more taken i could hope from the evil to come passed where i dared not follow him and the poor souls that bad gone down with the in her last plunge all these and the herself i had and come through these hardships and fearful i go in quest of my inheritance perils without my only thought should have been of gratitude and yet i could not behold the place without sorrow for others and a chill of recollected fear i was so thinking when upon a sudden mr cried out clapped his hand to his pockets and began to laugh why he cries if this be not a adventure i after all that i said i have forgot my glasses at that of course i understood the purpose of his anecdote and knew that if he had left his spectacles at home it had been done on purpose so that he might have the of s help without the awkwardness of him and indeed it was well thought upon for now suppose things to go the very worst how could swear to my friend s identity or how be made to bear evidence against myself for all that he had been a long while of out his want and had spoken to and recognised a good few persons as we came through the town and i had little doubt myself that he saw reasonably well as soon as we were past the where i recognised the landlord smoking his pipe in the door and was amazed to see him look no older mr changed the order of march walking behind with and sending me forward in the manner of a i	38
a very civil speech says to be sure na says my uncle but this is no a very kind of a proceeding and i m bound to be prepared and now that we understand each other ye can name your business why says you that are a man of so much understanding will doubtless have perceived that i am a gentleman my name has business in my story but the county of my friends is no very far from the isle of of which ye will have heard it seems there was a ship lost in those parts and the next day a gentleman of my family was seeking for his fire along the sands when he came upon a lad that was half drowned well he brought him to and he and some other gentlemen took and clapped him in an ruined castle where from that day to this he has been a great expense to my friends my friends are a wild like and not so particular about the law as some that i could name and finding that the lad owned some decent folk and was your born nephew mr they asked me to give ye a bit call and to confer upon the matter and i may tell ye at the unless we can agree upon some terms ye are little likely to set eyes upon him for my friends added simply are no very well off i comb into my kingdom my uncle cleared his throat i m no very caring says he he a good lad at the best of it and i ve call to interfere ay ay said i see what ye would be at pretending ye don t care to make the smaller na said my uncle it s the mere truth i take manner of interest in the lad and i ll pay and ye can make a and a mill of him for what i care sir says blood s thicker than water in the s name ye desert your brother s son for the fair shame of it and if ye did and it came to be ye be very popular in your or i m the more deceived i m no just very popular the way it is returned and i see how it would come to be no by me way nor yet by you or your friends so that s idle talk my says he then it ll have to be david that tells it said how that says my uncle sharply ou just this way says my friends would doubtless keep your nephew as long as there was any of to be made of it but if there was i am clearly of opinion they would let him gang where he pleased and be damned to him ay but i m no very caring about that either said my uncle i be made up with that i was thinking that said and what for why asked why mr replied by all that could hear there were two ways of it either ye liked david and would pay to get him back or else ye had very good reasons for not wanting him and would pay for us to keep him it seems it s not the first well then it s the second and am i to ken it for it should be a pretty penny in my pocket and the pockets of my friends i follow ye there said my uncle no said well see here you want the lad back well what do ye want done with him and how much will ye pay my uncle made no answer but shifted uneasily on his seat come sir cried i would have ye to ken that i am a gentleman i bear a king s name i am rider to kick my at your hall door either give me an answer in civility and that out of hand or by the top of i will ram three feet of iron through your eh man cried my uncle to his feet give me a what s like wrong with ye just a plain man and dancing master and i m trying to be as as it s morally possible as for that wild talk it s fair says you and would i be with my he come mt t powder and hands are as the to the swallow against the bright steel in the hands of said tiie other before your finger could find the tiie would on your breast eh man s denying it said my uncle pit it as ye please t your ain way i ll do to cross ye just tell me what like ye ll be wanting and ye ll see that we ll can agree fine sir said i ask for nothing but plain dealing in two words do ye want the lad killed or kept o cried o me that s kind of language killed or kept repeated o my uncle we ll have if you please well says as ye please that ll be the dearer the dearer cries would ye f your hands wi crime said they re crime whatever and the killing s easier and quicker and keeping the lad ll be a job a business i ll have him though returned my uncle i never had to do with thing morally wrong and i m no to begin to pleasure a wild ye re scrupulous sneered a man o principle said simply and if i have to pay for it fu have to pay for it and besides says he ye forget the lad s my brother s son well well said and now about the price no very easy for me to set a name upon it i would first have to ken some small matters i would have to ken for instance what ye gave at the first	38
go cries my uncle struck what for for david says a lee it s a black lee i cried my uncle he was never he in his throat that ye that he never was i that s no fault of mine nor yet of yours said nor yet of s if he s a man that can be trusted what do ye mean cried did tell ye why ye how else would i ken cried and i are partners we gang shares so ye can see for what good ye can do and i must plainly say ye drove a fool s bargain when ye let a man like the sailor man so far forward in your matters but that s past praying for and ye must he on your bed the way ye made it and the point in hand is just this what did ye pay him i come into my kingdom has he ye asked my uncle that s my concern said said my uncle i care what he said he and the solemn god s truth is this that i gave him twenty pound but be perfectly honest with ye f that he was to have the selling of the lad in would be as but no from my pocket ye see thank you mr that will do well said the lawyer stepping forward and then mighty good evening mr said he and good evening uncle said i and a mr added never a word said nay uncle neither black nor white but just sat where he was on the top and stared upon us like a man turned to stone away his and the lawyer taking him by the arm plucked him up from the led him into the kitchen whither we all followed and set him down in a chair beside the hearth where the fire was out and only a burning there we all looked upon him for awhile greatly in our success but yet with a sort of pity for the man s shame come come mr said the lawyer you must not be down hearted for i promise you we shall make easy terms in the meanwhile give us the cellar key and shall draw us a bottle of your father s wine in honour of the event then turning to me and taking me by the hand mr david says he i wish you all joy in your good fortune which i believe to b deserved and then to with a of mr i pay you my compliment it was most conducted but in one point you my comprehension do i understand your name to be james or charles or is it george perhaps and why should it be any of the three sir drawing himself up like one who smelt an offence only sir that you mentioned a king s name replied and as there has never yet been a king or his fame at least has never come my way i judged you must refer to that you had in this was just the that would feel keenest and i am free to confess he took it very ill not a word would he answer but off to the far end of the kitchen and sat down and and it was not till i stepped after him and gave him my hand and thanked him by title as the chief spring of my success that he began to smile a bit and was at last prevailed upon to join our party by that time we had the fire lighted and a bottle of wine a good supper came out of the basket to which and i and set ourselves down while the lawyer and my uncle passed into the next chamber to consult they stayed there about an i come into my kingdom hour j at the end of which period they had come to a good and my uncle and i set our hands to the agreement in a formal manner by the terms of this my uncle bound himself to satisfy as to his and to pay me two clear thirds of the yearly income of so the in the ballad had come home and when i lay down that night on the kitchen i was a man of means and had a name in the country and and slept and on their hard beds but for me who had lain out under heaven and upon dirt and stones so many days and nights and often with an empty belly and in fear of death this good change in my case me more than any of the former evil ones and i lay till dawn looking at the fire on the roof and planning the future u chapter xxx so fer as i was concerned myself i had come to port bat i had still to whom i was so on my hands and i felt besides a heavy chaise in the of the murder and james of the on both these heads i to the next morning walking to and fro about six of the clock before the house of and with nothing in view but the fields and woods that bad been my and were now mine even as i spoke on these grave my eye would take a glad bit of a run over the prospect and my heart with pride about my clear duty to my friend the lawyer had no doubt i must help bim ont of the county at whatever risk but in the case of james he was of a different mind mr says he is one thing mr s quite another i know little of the facts but i gather that a great noble whom we will call if you like the d of a has some concern and ia even supposed to feel some in the matter the d of a is doubtless an excellent nobleman	38
the or good bye but mr david qui if you interfere to his vengeance you should remember there is one way to shut your testimony out j and that is to put you in the dock there you would be in the same as mr s you will object that you are innocent well but so is he and to be tried for your life before a jury on a quarrel and with a judge upon the bench would be a brief transition to the gallows now i had made all these before and found no very good reply to them so i put on all the simplicity i could in that case sir said i i would just have to be hanged would i not my dear boy cries he go in god s name and do what you think is right it is a poor thought that at my time of life i should be you to choose the safe and shameful and i take it back with an apology go and do your duty and be hanged if you must like a gentleman there are worse things in the world than to be hanged not many sir said i smiling why yes sir he cried many and it would be ten times better for your uncle to go no farther if he were dangling decently upon a thereupon he turned into the house still in a great of mind so that i saw i had pleased him heartily and there he wrote me two letters making his comments on them as he wrote u says he is to my the british linen company placing a credit to your name consult mr he will know of ways and you with this credit can supply the means i trust you will be a good husband of your money j but in tie affair of a friend hke mr i would be even prodigal then for his there is no better way than that you should the advocate tell him your tale and offer testimony whether he may take it or not is quite another matter and will turn on the d of a now that you may reach the lord advocate well i give you here a letter to a o your own the learned mr of a man whom i esteem it will look better that you should be presented by one of own name and the of ia much looked up to in the faculty and stands well with lord advocate grant i would not trouble him if i were you with any particulars and do you know i think it would be needless to refer to mr form yourself upon the he is a good model when you deal with the advocate be discreet and in all these matters may the lord guide you mr david be took his farewell and set out with for the while and i turned our faces for the city of as we went by the and beside the and the unfinished lodge we kept looking back at the house of my it stood there bare and great and like a good bye place not lived in only in one of the top windows there was the peak of a up and down and back and forward like the head of a rabbit from a i had little welcome when i came and less kindness while i stayed but at least i was watched as i went away and i went slowly forward upon our way having little heart either to walk or speak the same thought was uppermost in both that we were near the time of our parting and remembrance of all days upon us sorely we talked indeed of what should be done and it was resolved that should keep to the county now here now there but coming once in the day to a particular place where i might be able to communicate with him either in my own person or by messenger in the meanwhile i was to seek out a lawyer who was an and a man therefore to be wholly trusted and it should be his part to find a ship and to arrange for s safe no sooner was this business done than the words seemed to leave us and though i would seek to jest with under the name of mr and he with me on my new clothes and my estate you could feel very well that we were nearer tears than laughter we came the by way over the hill of and when we got near to the place called rest and be thankful and looked down on and over to the city and the castle on the hill we both stopped for we both knew without a word said that we had come to where our ways parted here he to me once again what had been agreed upon between he the address o the lawyer the daily hour at which might be found and the that were to be made by any that came seeking him then i gave what money i had a guinea or two of s so that he should not starve in the meanwhile and then we stood a space and looked over at in silence well good bye said and held out his left k good bye said i and gave the hand a little grasp and went off down hill neither one of us looked the other in the nor so long as he was in my view did i take one lack glance at the friend i was leaving but as i went on my way to the city i felt so lost and that i could have found it in my heart to sit down by the and cry and weep like any baby it was coming near noon when i passed in by the west and the into	38
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of the sound being that of soft ng in english as in singer not as in finger j jl o contents pack preface c v chapter i elements of discord native i chapter ii elements of discord foreign chapter iii the sorrows of i j to september i y chapter iv september i y to august chapter v the battle of september l vi ii contents chapter vi page last exploits of september ber chapter the november chapter will affairs of and november december chapter ix december to march i g chapter x the march i g xi and i g i g eight years of trouble in chapter i the elements of discord native the story i have to tell is still going on as i write the characters are alive and active it is a piece of contemporary history in the most exact sense and yet for all its and the part played in it by and and iron war ships the ideas and the manners of the native actors date back before the roman empire they are christians singers of hymns at family worship hardy their books are printed in london by or the tract society but in most other points they are the of our ancestors who drove their on the wrong side of the roman wall we have passed the eight years of trouble in they are not yet clear of the we are in the thick of the age of they are in a period of and this makes them hard to understand to us with our ideas has the first appearance of a land of an elaborate marks the race alone among terms of ceremony fly thick as oaths on board a ship each other when they meet and as they play and for the real noble a whole private dialect is set apart the com mon names for an axe for blood for a knife a pig food and an oven are in his presence as the common names for a and for many offices and members of the body are in the drawing rooms of english ladies special words are set apart for his leg his face his hair his belly his eyelids his son his daughter his wife his wife s his wife s with his wife his dwelling his spear his comb his sleep his dreams his anger the mutual anger of several chiefs his food his pleasure in eating the food and eating of his his his elements of discord native cough his sickness his recovery his death his being carried on a the of his bones and his skull after death to address these is quite a branch of knowledge and he who goes to visit a high chief does well to make sure of the of his to complete the picture the same word the watching of a virgin and the of a chief and the same word means to cherish a chief and to a favourite child men like us full of memories of hear of a man so addressed so flattered and we leap at once to the conclusion that he is hereditary and absolute hereditary he is bom of a great family he must always be a man of mark but yet his office is and in a weak sense is held on good behaviour compare the case of a chief born one of the great ones of his he was sometimes appointed its chief officer and conventional father was loved and respected and served and fed and died for if he gave loyalty a chance and yet if he sufficiently outraged sentiment was liable to as to eight years of trouble in authority the parallel is not so close doubtless the chief if he be popular a great influence but it is limited important matters are in a f or native parliament with its and parade its endless speeches and polite allusions i say not decided for even a small will often strike a or a province impotent in the midst of these the chief sits usually silent a kind of a audience for village and the of the seems for the moment to be final the absolute chiefs of and were addressed as plain john and thomas the chiefs of are with but the seat and extent of their actual authority is hard to find it is so in the members of the state and worse in the belly the idea of a sovereign the air the name we have the thing we are not so sure of and the process of election to the chief power is a mystery certain provinces have in their gift certain high titles or names as they are called these can only be attributed to the descendants of elements of discord native lar lines once granted each name at once the whatever that be worth of the province which it and counts as one towards the general of to be king they say or some of them say i find few in perfect harmony a man should resume five of these names in his own person but the case is purely local jealousy its occurrence there are rival provinces far more concerned in the of their than in the choice of a right man for king if one of these shall have bestowed its name on a it will be the signal and the sufficient reason for the other to bestow its name on b or c the majority of and that of are thus in opposition nor is this all in the present king held the three names of and held that of and that of had thus a majority of he held perhaps as high a proportion as can be hoped in these distracted islands and he counted among the number the eight years of trouble in name of here if ever an election here if a king	38
were at all possible was the king and yet the natives were not satisfied was crowned march th and next month the provinces of and met in joint parliament and elected their own two princes nd to an alternate taking the first trick of two years war was imminent when the interfered and any war were to the terms of the peace which they procured by the treaty was confirmed king and set by his side in the office of vice king the compromise was not i am told without precedent but it lacked all appearance of success to the constitution of which was already all wheels and no horses the had added a fifth wheel in addition to the old who is the king they had supplied a new one what is the vice king two royal lines some cloudy idea of between the two an in which the vote of each province is immediately effectual as regards itself so that every candidate elements of discord native who one name becomes a perpetual and dangerous for the other four such are a few of the more many argue that the whole idea of is modern and imported but it seems impossible that anything so foolish should have been suddenly devised and the constitution bears on its front the marks of but the king once elected and what does lie become it may be said he remains precisely as he was election to one of the five names is significant it brings not only dignity but power and the is secure from that moment of a certain following in war but i cannot find that the further step of election to the anything worth mention the successful candidate now the o much good may it him he can so sign himself on which it does not follow that any one will heed he can summon it does not follow they will if he be too he can go to war but so he could before when he was only the chief of certain provinces his own provinces will eight years of trouble in support him the provinces of his rivals will take the field upon the other part just as before in so far as he is the of any of the five names in short he is a man to be reckoned with in so far as he is king of i cannot find but what the president of a college society is a far more formidable officer and unfortunately although the credit side of the account proves thus imaginary the side is actual and heavy for he is now set up to be the mark of he will be to raise taxes to make roads to punish crime to rebellion and how he is to do it is not asked if i am in the least right in my of this obscure matter no one need be surprised to hear that the land is full of war and r of war scarce a year goes by but what some province is in arms or sits sulky and menacing holding the king s and planting food in the bush the first step of military preparation the religious sentiment of the people is indeed for peace at any price no can bear arms and even the who does so elements of discord native is denied the in the last war the college of where the picked youth are prepared for the lost but a single student the rest in the bosom of a bleeding country and deaf to the voices of vanity and honour peacefully pursued their studies but if the church looks on war the warrior in no extremity of need or passion forgets his consideration for the church the houses and gardens of her ministers stand safe in the midst of armies a way is reserved for themselves along the beach where they may be seen in their white and openly passing the lines while not a hundred yards behind the will be exchanging the useless of warfare women are also respected they are not fired upon and they are suffered to pass between the hostile exchanging gossip spreading rumour and to either army the secret of the other this is plainly no savage war it has all the of the and all his parade battles fine dresses and songs and the field and the young soldier comes to camp burning on lo eight years of trouble in the one hand to distinguish himself by acts of and on the other to display his acquaintance with field etiquette thus after became involved in against the and had another code to observe besides his own he was always asking his white if things were done correctly let us try to be as wise as and to conceive that etiquette and morals differ in one country and another we shall be the less surprised to find war with some customs the childish destruction of fruit trees in an enemy s country the resources of and the habit of head hunting not only foreigners but has begun to exercise the minds of the natives themselves soon after the german heads were taken mr missionary had occasion to visit s camp and spoke of the practice with said one chief we have just been ourselves to guess where that custom came from but is it not so that when david killed he cut off his head and carried it before the king with the civil life of the inhabitants we have elements of discord native far less to do and yet even here a word of preparation is inevitable they are easy merry and pleasure loving the though by far from either the most capable or the most beautiful of fine dress is a passion and makes a festival a thing of beauty song is almost ceaseless the sings at the oar the family at evening worship the girls at night	38
in the guest house sometimes the workman at his toil no occasion is too small for the poets and a death a visit the day s news the day s will be set to rhyme and harmony even half grown girls the occasion arising fashion words and train of children for its song as with all pacific goes hand in hand with the dance and both shade into the drama some of the performances are and ugly some only dull others are pretty funny and attractive games are popular matches where a hundred played upon a side endured at times for weeks and ate up the country like the presence of an army fishing the daily bath courtship which is gone upon by conversation which is eight years of trouble in largely political and the delights of public fill in the long hours but the special delight of the is the when people form a party and go from village to village and they are said to go on a their songs have announced their approach ere they arrive the house is prepared for their reception the of the village attend to prepare the bowl and entertain them with the dance time flies in the enjoyment of every pleasure which an and when the sets forth the same welcome and the same joys expect them beyond the next cape where the nearest village in its grove of palms to the visitors it is all golden for the hosts it has another side in one or two words of the language the fact out the same word expresses a long call and to come as a calamity the same word to have no of pain and to have no as in the arrival of visitors and used of bears the sense of being overcome as with fire flood or visitors but elements of discord native the of the dictionary is the which its pages like a humorous it is used in the sense of to avoid visitors but it means literally hide in the wood so by the sure hand of popular speech we have the picture of the house deserted the disappointed and the host that should have been in the bush we are thus brought to the beginning of a series of traits of manners highly curious in themselves and essential to an understanding of the war in authority sits on the one hand on the other property stands bound in the midst of what property exists is in the family not in the individual and of the loose in which a family dwells the dictionary may yet again help us to some idea i find a string of with the following senses to deal with as in helping from a family plantation to give away without consulting other members of the family to go to strangers for help instead of to relatives to take from relatives without permission to steal from relatives to have eight years of trouble in robbed by relatives the ideal of conduct in the family and some of its appear here very plainly the man who in a native word of praise is a race has his hand always open to his kindred the man who is not in a native term of contempt knows always where to turn in any pinch of want or extremity of within the family and by the less self respecting without it has thus grown into a custom and a and the dictionary with evidence of its abuse special words signify the begging of food of food of fish of pigs of pigs for travellers of pigs for stock of of tops of tops for planting of tools of of implements for and of it is true the beggar was supposed in time to make a return somewhat as by the roman contract of but the obligation was only moral it could not be or was not enforced as a matter of fact it was disregarded the language had recently to borrow from the a word for debt while by a significant it possessed a native elements of discord native expression for the failure to pay to omit to make a return for property begged conceive now the position of the by and all defence denied him by the laws of honour the gesture of refusal his last and single resource was supposed to signify my house is destitute until that point was reached in other words the conduct prescribed for a was to give and to continue giving but it does not appear he was at all expected to give with a good grace the dictionary is well with expressions standing ready like to be discharged upon the troop of shame faced ones you draw in your head like a you make your voice small like a whistle pipe you beg like one and the to look cross is equipped with the rider as at the sight of beggars this insolence of beggars and the weakness of can only be illustrated by examples we have a girl in our service to whom we had given some finery that she might wait at table and at her own request some warm eight years of trouble in clothing against the cold mornings of the bush she went on a visit to her family and returned in an old her whole wardrobe having been divided out among relatives in the course of twenty four hours a in the province of being a handy busy man bought a boat for a hundred dollars fifty of which he paid down presently after relatives came to him upon a visit and took a fancy to his new possession we have long been wanting a boat said they give us this one so when the visit was done they departed in the boat the meanwhile travelled into the best way he could sold a parcel of land and begged among	38
his other relatives to pay the remainder of the price of the boat which was no longer his you might think this was enough but some months later the having broken a brought back the boat to be repaired and by the original owner such customs it might be argued being double edged will ultimately right themselves but it is otherwise in practice such folk as the s relatives will generally have elements of discord native a boat and will never have paid for it such men as the may have sometimes paid for a boat but they will never have one it is there as it is with us at home the measure of the abuse of either system is the blackness of the individual heart the same man who would drive his poor relatives from his own door in england would in the doors of the rich and the essence of the in either case is to pursue one s own advantage and to be indifferent to the losses of one s neighbour but the particular of the system is to industry to work more is there only to be more to save is impossible the family has then made a good day of it when all are filled and nothing remains over for the crew of and the injustice of the system begins to be recognised even in one native is said to have a certain fortune two clever lads have expressed to us their discontent with a system which taxes industry to idleness and i hear that in one village of a law has been passed forbidding gifts under the penalty of a sharp fine eight years of trouble in under this the of taxes which strike all at the same time which expose the industrious to a perfect siege of and the lazy to be actually condemned to a day s labour may be imagined without words it is more important to note the of all sense of property from applying for help to who are scarce permitted to refuse it is but a step to taking from them in the dictionary phrase without permission from that to at large is but a hair s breadth elements of discord foreign chapter ii the elements of discord foreign the huge majority of like other god fearing folk in other countries are perfectly content with their own manners and upon one condition it is plain they might enjoy themselves far beyond the average of man seated in islands very rich in food the idleness of the many idle would scarce matter and the provinces might continue to bestow their names among rival and fall into war and enjoy that awhile and drop into peace and enjoy that in a manner highly to be envied but the condition that they should be let alone is now no longer possible more than a hundred years ago and following closely on the heels of cook an irregular invasion of began to swarm about the of the pacific the seven of stand still but half aroused in the midst of the eight years of trouble in of competition and the island races to a of launched upon the stream of time now fall to make their desperate voyage among pots of brass and the port and is the seat of the political sickness of at the foot of a mountain the coast makes a deep roughly in front the barrier is broken by the fresh water of the streams if the swell be from the north it enters almost without and the roll at their and along the coral which follows the of the beach the surf breaks with a continuous uproar in wild weather as the world knows the roads are along the whole shore which is everywhere green and level and overlooked by inland mountain tops the town lies drawn out in strings and clusters the western horn is the eastern and from one to the other of these extremes i ask the reader to walk he will find more of the history of spread before his eyes in that excursion than has yet elements of discord foreign been collected in the blue books or the of the world where the walk is to begin is a flat wind swept planted with palms backed against a swamp of and occupied by a rather miserable village the reader is informed that this is the proper residence of the kings he will be the more surprised to observe a board set up and to read that this historic village is the property of the german firm but these boards which are among the commonest features of the landscape may be rather taken to imply that the claim has been disputed a little further east he skirts the stores offices arid of the firm itself thence he will pass through the one really town like portion of this long string of villages by german bars and stores and the german and reach the catholic mission and cathedral standing by the mouth of a small river the bridge which crosses here bridge of is a frontier behind is ft beyond proper behind are supreme beyond with but few exceptions all is saxon here the reader will go eight y ears of trouble in forward past the stores of mr american and messrs english past the english mission the office of the english newspaper the english church and the old american till he reaches the mouth of a larger river the beyond in his way takes him in the shade of many trees and by scattered dwellings and presently brings him beside a great range of offices the place and the monument of a german who fought the german firm during his life his house now he is dead remains pointed like a discharged cannon at the of his old enemies enough it is at present and occupied by englishmen a little	38
further and the reader gains the eastern angle of the bay where stands the pilot house and signal post and whence he can see on the line of the main coast of the island the british and the new american the course of his walk will have been by a considerable to and fro of pleasure and business he will have encountered many varieties of sailors merchants clerks priests in their elements of discord foreign and the on of any island beach and the sailors are sometimes in considerable force but not the he will think at times there are more than men to own them it may chance it is a full day in the harbour he will then have seen all manner of ships from men of war and deep sea to the labour vessels of the german firm and the island and if he be of an turn he may calculate that there are more afloat in bay than ashore in the whole on the other hand he will have encountered all ranks of natives chiefs and in their scrupulous white clothes perhaps the king himself attended by guards in uniform smiling with their stars girls women crowds of cheerful children and he will have asked himself with some surprise where these reside here and there in the back yards of european he may have had a glimpse of a native house in a comer but since he left none on the beach where prefer to live scarce one on the line of street eight years of trouble in the handful of have everything the natives walk in a foreign town a year ago on a behind a he might have observed a native house guarded by and flown over by the standard of he would then have been told it was the seat of government driven as i have to relate ov r the and from beyond the german town into the saxon to day he will learn it has been back again to its old quarters and he will think it significant that the king of the islands should be thus to and fro in his chief city at the nod of and then he will observe a feature more significant still a house with some of affairs and hanging by a man at a perhaps a trial proceeding in the front or perhaps the council breaking up in knots after a stormy sitting and he will remember that he is in the the forbidden soil or territory of the that the magistrate whom he has just seen trying native is no officer of the native king s and that this the only port and place of business in the king elements of discord foreign and its own for its own by the hands of white and under the of white let him go farther he will find the roads almost everywhere to cease or to be made by native pig fences bridges to be quite unknown and houses of the to become at once a rare exception set aside the german and the frontier is sharp at the boundary of the sa europe ends begins here then is a singular state of affairs all the money luxury and business of the kingdom in one place that place from the native government and administered by for and the themselves holding it not in common but in hostile so that it lies between them like a bone between two dogs each growling each clutching his own end should ever choose a coat of arms i have a motto ready enter rumour painted full of tongues the majority of the natives do extremely little the majority of the are merchants with some four in th eight years of trouble in month with some ten or twenty customers a day and gossip is the common resource of all the town to the day s news and the bars are crowded with amateur some are office and king and and compass the fall of officials with an eye to salary some are delighted with the pleasure of for itself i never saw so good a place as this said one of these you can be in a new conspiracy every day many on the other hand are sincerely concerned for the future of the country the quarters are so close and the scale is so small that perhaps not any one can be trusted always to preserve his temper every one tells everything he knows that is our country sickness nearly every one has been betrayed at times and told a trifle more the way our sickness takes the and the news flies and the tongues wag and fists are shaken pot boil and within the memory of man the white people of lay in the worst of degradation they are now improved elements of discord foreign both men and women to day they must be called a more than fairly respectable population and a much more than fairly intelligent the whole would probably not fill the ranks of even an english half yet there are a surprising number above the average in sense knowledge and manners the trouble for is that they are all here after a some are sharp some are famous justly or not for foul play in business tales fly one merchant you against his neighbour the neighbour on the first occasion is found to return the compliment each with a good story to the proof there is so much in the islands and no more a man s share of it is his share of bread and commerce like politics is here to a shows its ugly side and becomes as personal as close at their elbows in all this stands the native looking on like a child his true he and is usually silent as in a child a considerable of speech is accompanied by some power of secrecy news he his	38
stood waiting of descended from both the royal lines late joint king with off with nothing in the time of the treaty probably by the circumstance a chief with a strong following and in character and capacity high above the native average yet when s was done and the curtain rose on the set scene of the was absent and stood in his place was to be for a piece of solemn and offensive and the man selected to replace him sorrows of was his sole partner and in the act for so strange a choice good ground must have existed but it remains some supposing scratched as too independent others that had indeed betrayed and his new advancement was the price of his treachery so these two chiefs began to change places like the scales of a balance one down the other up raised his flag th in chief place of his own province of the style of king and began to collect and arm a force by the admission of was in the market supplying him with weapons so were the americans so but for our british law so would have been the british for wherever there is a sound of battle there will the be gathered together selling arms a little longer and we find visited and addressed as king and majesty by a german meanwhile for the unhappy the road led downward he was refused a he was turned out of the seat of his on a land eight years of trouble in claim of s fled across the and had the coolness german expression to his flag in he was asked in the most polite manner says the same account in the most delicate manner in the world a reader of might be tempted to the phrase to strike his flag in his own capital and on his refusal to to this request dr appeared himself with ten men and an officer from the a sailor climbed into the tree and brought down the flag of which was carefully folded and sent in the most polite manner to its owner the of england and the states were there the excellent gentlemen to protest last and yet more explicit the german who visited and be addressed the king we may surely say the late king as the high chief had he no party then at that time it is probable he might have called some of to his standard and yet he sat there helpless monarch like a fowl for the blame lies with himself because he was a helpless creature it sorrows of lies also w th england and the states their agents on the spot preached peace where there was no peace and no pretence of it with eloquence and secretary seems to have felt a call to join personally in the solemn farce and was at the expense of a in which he assured the monarch it was for the higher interests of he should do nothing there was no man better at doing that the advice came straight home and was devoutly followed and to be just to the great powers something was done in europe a conference was called it was agreed to send to and the decks had to be hastily cleared against their visit dr had attached the of and hoisted the german war flag over the american in a sudden access of good service had flown the stars and over colours on either side these steps were solemnly the expressly and the islands fell into a period of suspense of some twelve months duration during which the seat of the history was transferred to other countries eight years of trouble in and escapes my here on the spot i select three incidents the arrival on the scene of a new actor the visit of the and the riot on the emperor s birthday the rest shall be silence only it must be borne in view that all the while continued to strengthen himself in and sat listening to the song of captain the new actor was a captain of of a romantic and adventurous character he had served with credit in war but soon wearied of garrison life resigned his battery came to the states found employment as a civil engineer visited took a sub contract on the canal caught the fever and came for the sake of the sea voyage to he had that natural love for the which lies so often latent in persons of a northern birth difficulty and danger attracted him and when he was picked out for secret duty to be the hand of germany in there is no doubt but he accepted the post with it is doubtful if a sorrows of better choice could have been made he had courage integrity ideas of his own and loved the employment the people and the place yet there was a fly in the the double error of unnecessary and of the of a trading company in political affairs has and in the end defeated much german policy and was introduced to the islands as a clerk and sent down to where he was soon the troops and the position of the rebel king as an agent of the german firm what this cost in the end i shall tell in another place and even in the beginning it deceived no one is a man of notable personal appearance he looks the part allotted him and the military clerk was soon the centre of observation and rumour wrote and complained of his presence to who had succeeded dr in the replied i have nothing to do with the gentleman be it well known that the gentleman has no appointment in a military character but assisting the government of in eight years of trouble in their work for is a quiet sensible gentleman and then he promised to send the vice	38
to get information of the captain s doings surely of deceit the the prime minister of the kingdom was at this period an adventurer of the name of he claimed on the strength of a romantic story to be the heir of a great english house he had played a part in a revolt in had in dutch and had risen to be a trusted agent of young the president it was in this character of a that he first came to the islands of where he collected a large sum of money for the church of the latter day saints at a given moment he dropped his and appeared as a christian and the owner of a part of the island of the steps of the are obscure they seem at least to have been ill received at salt lake and there is evidence to the effect that he was followed to the islands by his first attempt on politics was made under the of what sorrows of is called the missionary party and the conducted largely it is said with tears on the platform at prayer meetings it resulted in defeat without any decency of delay he changed his colours the errors of reform and with the support of the rose to the chief power in a very brief interval he had thus run through the of in the south seas it does not appear that he was any more particular in politics but he was careful to consult the character and prejudices of the late king that amiable far from but too sovereign had a continued use for money was observant to keep him well supplied one of the most of men was filled with visionary schemes for the protection and development of the race fell in step with him it is even thought he may have shared in his illusions the king and minister at least conceived between them a scheme of island the most obvious fault of which was that it came too late and armed and fitted out the nest egg of the future navy of the most eight years of trouble in important group still independent and one immediately threatened with was chosen for the scene of action the hon john e bush a half caste sailed december for as minister accompanied by a secretary of henry f poor and as soon as she was ready for sea the war ship followed in support the expedition was futile in its course almost tragic in result the was from the first a scene of disaster and the stores were sold the crew for a great part of a night she was in the hands of and the secretary lay bound upon the deck the mission itself at first with extravagance in was helped at last out of the island by the advances of a private citizen and they returned from dreams of independence to find their own city in the hands of a of white and the great once again in jail yet the farce had not been quite without effect it had aged the natives for the moment and it seems to have ruffled permanently the temper of the so might a fly caesar sorrows of the arrival of a mission from would scarce affect the composure of the courts of europe but in the eyes of the little kingdom a place apart it is there alone that men of their race enjoy most of the advantages and all the pomp of independence news of and descriptions of are grateful topics in all parts of the south seas and there is no better introduction than a photograph in which the bearer shall be represented in company with was besides sunk to the point at which an unfortunate begins to clutch at and he received the mission with delight letters were exchanged between him and a deed of was signed th february and the signature celebrated in the new house of the with some original ceremonies came attended by his several hundred chiefs two guards and six always decent withdrew at an early hour by those that remained all decency appears to have been forgotten high chiefs were seen to dance and day found the house with o eight years of trouble in who must be roused with coffee and sent home as a first chapter in the history of it was hardly cheering and remarked to one of the with equal dignity and sense if you have come here to teach my people to drink i wish you had stayed away the looked on from the first with natural irritation that a power of the of should thus profit by its footing in the family of nations and send and make believe to have a navy and bark and snap at the heels of the great german empire but could not prevent the hunted from taking refuge in any hole that offered and he could afford to smile at the fantastic in the it was another matter when the approached the sitting still in his government like in his tent helping neither side and as the suspected keeping the eggs warm for himself when the out of on this visit the german war ship sorrows of followed at her heels and was no sooner set down with the than he was summoned and ordered on board by two german officers the step is one of those triumphs of temper which can only be admired is entertaining the of a sovereign power in treaty with his own king and the captain of a german orders him to quit his guests but there was worse to come i gather that was at the time in the he had doubtless been promised prompt aid and a prompt success he had seen himself helped privately ordered about and publicly and he was still the king of nothing more than his own province and already the	38
second in command of captain with the of some part of his native cabinet and behind the back of his white minister he found means to communicate with the a passage on the a and a home in were the proposed and he seems to have been tempted a day was set for a secret interview poor the secretary and eight years of trouble in j d strong an american painter attached to the in the surprising quality of government artist landed with a boat screw in and while the secretary hid himself according to agreement in the home of an english the artist bent on entered the of the rebel king it was a great day in three hundred had come in a feast was cooking and the in view of the native love of being was made entirely welcome but beneath the friendly surface all were on the alert the secret had out beheld his plans threatened in the root trembled for the possession of his slave and sovereign and the german vice mr had been sent or summoned to the scene of danger it was after dark prayers had been said and the hymns sung through all the village and strong and the sat together on the in the house of when the events began strong speaks german freely a fact which he had not disclosed and he was scarce sorrows of more amused than embarrassed to be able to follow all the the and the changing counsels of his neighbours first the himself was and there was a false alarm that he had escaped and was already with poor next came certain intelligence that some of the had run the and were on their way to the house of the english thereupon in spite of some from who tried to defend the independence of his cabinet gathered a of warriors marched out of the village brought back the and clapped them in the iron which served as jail along with these he seems to have seized to the and poor seeing his conspiracy public burst with his boat s crew into the town made his way to the house of the native prime minister and demanded s release hastened to the spot with strong at his heels and the two being both and strong seriously alarmed for his friend s safety there began among them a scene of great at one point when eight years of trouble in strong suddenly disclosed his acquaintance with german it attained a high style of comedy at another when a pistol was most foolishly drawn it bordered on drama and it may be said to have ended in a mixed when poor was finally packed into the iron jail along with the ministers meanwhile the captain of his boat of whom i shall have to tell again had cleverly withdrawn the boat s crew at an early stage of the quarrel among the population beyond s he collected a body of armed men returned before dawn to the iron jail and the secretary and the of the rebel cabinet no opposition was shown and doubtless the rescue was at by who had gained his point poor had the face to complain the next day to but to with in was labour lost you have been repeatedly warned mr poor not to expose yourself among these savages said he not long after the presence of the was made a by the and sorrows of the rough and tumble withdrew on borrowed money to find their own government in hot water to the neck the s birthday it is possible and it is alleged that the entered into the conference with hope but it is certain they were resolved to remain prepared for either fate and i take the liberty of believing that was not forgiven his that during this interval he stood marked like a tree for and that his conduct was daily for further of offence on the evening of the emperor s birthday march d certain were in a public bar the season and the place considered it is scarce cynical to assume they had been drinking nor so much being granted can it be thought to suppose them possibly in fault for the that took place a i say but i am willing to call it a riot and this was the new fault of this it is that was described by a german as the upon by of the german emperor eight years of trouble in i pass the by to examine the point of four natives were brought to trial for this horrid fact not before a native judge but the german magistrate of the of one was one condemned for and two for assault on appeal not to but the three the case was by a majority of two to one returned to the magistrate and as far as i can learn was then allowed to drop himself laid the chief blame on one of the of the a half white of the name of him he sought to have discharged but was again baffled by his brother where in all this are we to find a corner of responsibility for the king of the alleged author of the outrage was a half white as was to learn to his cost he claimed to be an american subject and he was not even in the king s employment the scene of the outrage was outside the king s by treaty by the choice of germany he was not so much as allowed to fly his flag there and the denial of justice if justice were denied rested with the of britain and the states sorrows of but when a dog is to be beaten any stick will serve in the meanwhile on the proposition of mr the washington conference on affairs was till autumn so that the ministers of germany and great britain might submit	38
from the and i cannot go back again from what i have been sent to do i thought you would be sorrows of commended said if you brought about the of i will tell you said the all shall go quietly but there is one thing that must be done must be i will do nothing to him beyond he will only be kept on board for a couple of months and be well treated just as we did to the french chief napoleon iii some time ago whom we kept awhile and cared for well was no less explicit war he told should not cease till the had of and should be recognised meantime in the provinces a profound impression was received people to their fugitive sovereign in the bush many natives in brought their treasures and stored them in the houses of white friends the were sometimes ill received over in they found the village of deserted save for a few lads at these they and were rewarded with applause and the as soon as they had departed was torn down for this offence the village was eight years of trouble in burned by german sailors in a very decent and orderly style on the d september this was the dinner bell of the on the th the threat conveyed in the terms of the summons if any government district does not quickly obey this direction i will make war on that government district was thus commented on and and the meeting was in consequence well attended by chiefs of all parties they found themselves among the armed warriors of and the of the german and under the guns of five strong ships rose it was his first open appearance the german firm its work his words were few and great are my thanks that the chiefs and heads of families of the whole of are assembled here this day it is strictly forbidden that any discussion should take place as to whether it is good or not that is king of whether at this or at any future i place for your signature the following we inform all the people of of what follows i the government of has been assumed by king sorrows of by order of the king it directed that a should take place to day y composed of the chiefs and heads of families and have obeyed the summons we have signed our names under this i th september needs must under all these guns and the paper was signed but not without open the bearing of in particular was long remembered against him by the do you not see the king said the his father was no king was bold answer a bolder still has been printed but this is s own recollection of the passage on the next day the chiefs were all ordered back to shake hands with again they obeyed but again their attitude was menacing and some it is said audibly murmured as they gave their hands it is time to follow the poor sheet of paper literal meaning of who was now to be blown so over the face of earth as soon as news reached him of the declaration of war he fled from to a hamlet iii the bush about a mile and a half eight years of trouble in behind where he some days on the th his secretary despatched to the american an anxious appeal his majesty s cry and prayer in behalf of this weak people by august th the had word of his lurking place surrounded the hamlet under cloud of night and in the early morning burst with a force of sailors on the houses the people fled on all sides and were fired upon one boy was shot in the hand the first blood of the war but the king was nowhere to be found he had wandered further over the mountains the of the land towards and here in a safe place he built himself a town in the forest where he received a continual stream of visitors and messengers day after day the german blue were employed in the hopeless enterprise of beating the forests for the fugitive day after day they were suffered to pass under the guns of day after day they returned exhausted and disappointed to high chief of was known to be in the forest with the king his wife was seized sorrows of imprisoned in the german hospital and when it was thought her spirit was sufficiently reduced brought up for cross examination the wise lady confined herself in answer to a single word is your husband near yes is he far from yes is he with the king yes are he and the king in different places yes whereupon the witness was discharged about the loth of september was secretly in at the american with two companions the german were close set and visited by a strong and on his return his party was observed and hailed and fired on by a they ran away on all in the dark and so doing upon another whom and flung in a ditch for the sheet pi paper although of character is like most of an able body the second like the first fired after his at random in the dark and the two shots awoke the curiosity of on the afternoon of the th the day of the hand a high chief despatched two boys across the eight years of trouble in island with a letter they were most of the night upon the road it was near three in the morning before the in the camp of beheld their lantern drawing near out of the wood but the king was at once awakened the news was decisive and the letter if did not give himself up before ten on the	38
morrow he was told that great sorrows must befall his country i have not been able to draw as a hero but he is a man of certain virtues which the had now given him an occasion to display without hesitation he sacrificed himself his touching farewell to and making more expedition than the messengers passed early behind to the banks of the as he passed he detached a messenger to at the catholic mission followed by the same road and the pair met at the and went and sat together in a house all present were in tears do not let us weep said the talking man we have no cause for shame we do not yield to but to the invincible strangers the departing king sorrows of the care of his country to a and when the latter sought to console him with the s promises he shook his head and declared his assurance that he was going to a life of exile and perhaps to death about two o clock the meeting broke up returned to the catholic mission by the back of the town and proceeded by the beach road to the german naval hospital where he was received as he owns with perfect civility by about three brought him forth again as they went to the wharf the people wept and clung to their departing monarch a boat carried him on board the and he vanished from his countrymen yet it was long that he still lay in the harbour and so late as october th a boy who had been round the professed to have seen and spoken with him here again the needless mystery affected by the bitterly them the uncertainty which thus hung over s fate kept his name continually in men s mouths the words of his farewell rang in their ears to all on account of my great love o eight years of trouble in to my country and my great affection to all this is the reason that i deliver up my body to the german government that government may do as they wish to me the reason of this is because i do not desire that the blood of shall be for me again but i do not know what is my offence which has caused their anger to me and to my country and then the different provinces farewell and family farewell so also ai and farewell if we do not again see one another in this world pray that we may be again together above so the sheep departed with the of a saint and men thought of him as of some king arthur snatched into on board the the shook hands with him told him he was to be taken away from all the chiefs with whom he had been accustomed and had him taken to the under guard the next day he was sent to sea in the there went with him his brother one and one half caste german to interpret he was re sorrows of l used he dined in the stem with the officers but the boys dined near where the fire was they came to a newly formed place in where the was lying and a british ship which he knew to be a man because the officers were nicely dressed and wore here he was in a boat with a screen which he supposed was to conceal him from the british ship and on board the was sent below and told he must stay there till they had sailed later however he was allowed to come on deck where he found they had a screen perhaps an under which he walked looking at the newly formed settlement and admiring a big house where he was sure the governor lived from they sailed some time and reached an where a general came on board and where was only allowed on deck at night he could then see the lights of a town with he cape town off the they or lay to far at sea and sent a boat ashore to see he that there was no british years of trouble in man of war it was the next morning before the boat returned when the stood in and came to anchor near another german ship here came to him on deck and told him this was the place that is an astonishing thing said he i thought i was to go to germany i do not know what this means i do not know what will be the end of it my heart is troubled whereupon burst into tears a little after was called below to the captain and the governor the last addressed him this is my own place a good place a warm place my house is not yet finished but when it is you shall live in one of my rooms until i can make a house for you then he was taken ashore and brought to a tall iron house this house is regulated said the governor there is no fire allowed to bum in it in one part of this house weapons of the government were hung up there was a passage and on the other side of the passage fifty were chained together two and two by the ankles the windows were out of reach and there was only one door which was opened t six in the morning and shut again at six at sorrows of night all day he had his liberty went to the mission and walked about the who were like the sand on the for number at six they were called into the house and shut in for the night without beds or lights although they gave me no light said he with a smile i could see i was in a prison good food was given him tea made with warm water beef etc all excellent once	38
in their walks they a tree bearing in the garden of an english merchant ran back to the prison to get a shilling and came and offered to purchase i am not going to sell to you people said the merchant come and take what you like here interrupted himself to say it was the only tree bearing in the the governor had none or he would have given it to me on the passage from the to germany he had great delight to see the cliffs of england he saw the rocks shining in the sun and three hours later was surprised to find them sunk in the heavens he saw also and immense buildings perhaps and eight years of trouble in its castle in after breakfast mr who had now finally ceased from troubling came on board and carried him ashore in a steam to a large house of the government where he stayed till noon at noon told him he was going to the place where ships are that go to and led him to a very magnificent house with carriages inside and a wonderful roof of glass to wit the railway station they were on the train and then went in something with a house drawn by horses which had windows and many decks plainly an here at or i believe they stayed some while in a house of five hundred rooms then were got on board the as they understood for in england on a sunday were joined en route by the famous dr passed through a narrow passage where they went very slow and which was just like a river and beheld with curiosity that red sea of which they had learned so much in their at last at the hour when the fires bum red they came to a place where sorrows of was a german man of war was called with one of the boys on deck when he found a german officer awaiting him and a steam alongside and was told he must now leave his brother and go elsewhere i cannot go like this he cried you must let me see my brother and the other old men a term of courtesy who seems always to have been good natured his orders and consented not only to an interview but to allow to continue to accompany the king so these two were carried to the man of war and sailed many a day still supposing themselves bound for and lo she came to a country the like of which they had never dreamed of and cast anchor in the great of and upon that narrow land the were set on shore this was the part of his on which he looked back with the most bitterness it was the last for one thing and he was worn down with the long suspense and terror and deception he could not bear the water and though the were still good to him and gave him beef and and tea he suffered from the lack of vegetable food eight years of trouble in such is the narrative of this simple exile i have not sought to correct it by testimony it is not so much the facts that are historical as the man s attitude no one could hear this tale as he originally told it in my hearing i think none can read it as here and without the and simplicity of the and wondering at the want of heart or want of humour in so many successive that they should have continued to surround this infant with the secrecy of state chapter iv september to august so was on the throne and behind it and i have now to deal with their brief and reign that it was the reign of needs not to be argued the policy is throughout that of an able over hasty white with eyes and ideas but it should be borne in mind that he had a double task and must first lead his sovereign before he could begin to drive their common subjects meanwhile he himself was exposed if all tales be true to much and interference and to some aid from the and the firm and to one of these the of the i am inclined to attribute his ultimate failure the white enemies of the new were of two in the first stood and eight years of trouble in the of the two chief rivals of the firm who saw with jealousy a clerk or a so called clerk of their advanced to the chief power the second class that of the officials numbered at first exactly one the english acting is understood to have held strict orders to help germany commander of the the american captain when he arrived on the th october and for some time after seemed devoted to the german interest and spent his days with a german officer captain von who was beloved by all who knew him there remains the american general marsh a young man of high spirit and a generous disposition he had obeyed the orders of his government with a grudge and looked back on his past action with regret almost to be called repentance from the moment of the declaration of war against we find him standing forth in bold consistent and sometimes rather opposition stirring up his government at home with clear and forcible and on the spot grasping at every opportunity to thrust a stick into the german wheels for some while he and fought their difficult battle in in the course of which first one and then the other paid a visit home to reason with the authorities at washington and during the s absence there was found an american clerk in william to perform the duties of the office with remarkable ability and courage the three names just brought together and make the	38
seven thousand and the forty thousand a sum is well able to pay such were the arrangements and some of the ideas of this strong ardent and sanguine man of upon his conduct beyond the general consent that he was rather harsh and in too loi great a hurry few are articulate the native paper of complaints was particularly childish out of twenty three counts the first two refer to the private character of and three complain that officials were kept in the dark as to the one of the law one of the direct appointment of chiefs by the sort of mistake into which in the south seas fall so readily one of the enforced labour of chiefs one of the taxes and one of the roads this i may give in full from the very lame translation in the american white book the roads that were made were called the government roads they were six wide their making caused much damage to s lands and what was planted on it the cried on account of their lands which were taken high and abused they again cried on account of the loss of what they had planted which was now thrown away in a way without any regard being shown or question asked of the owner of the land or any compensation offered for the damage done this was different with foreigners land in i eight years of trouble in their case permission was first asked to make the roads the foreigners were paid for any destruction made the sting of this count was i fancy in the last no less than six articles complain of the administration of the law and i believe that was never satisfactory told me himself he was never yet satisfied with any native judge and men say and it seems to fit in well with his hasty and eager character that he would by word of mouth sometimes forget what he had said and on the same question arising in another province decide it perhaps otherwise i gather on the whole our captain was not great in law two articles refer to a matter i must deal with more at length and rather from the point of view of the white the common charge against was that of the german firm coming as he did this was inevitable had bought with hard cash that was matter of history the present government he did not even require to buy having founded it by his and introduced the to through the doors of his own office and the effect of the blunder was kept alive by the chatter of the clerks in themselves of the new government and to all rivals the time of raising a tax is the harvest of the merchant it is the time when will be made and must be sold and the intention of the german firm first in the time of and again in april and may with was to seize and handle the whole operation their chief rivals were the messrs and it seems beyond question that provincial more than once issued orders forbidding to take money from the new firm these when they were brought to his notice and he is entitled to be heard no man can live long in and not have his honesty but the against s are both few and obscure i believe he was as straight as his sword the doubtless issued these orders but there were plenty besides to suggest them every wandering clerk from the firm s office every plantation manager would be the same story i eight years of trouble in in the native ear and here again the blunder hung about the neck of a ton s weight the natives as well as the had seen then on a stool in the office in the eyes of the natives as well as in those of the he must always have retained the mark of from that ill judged passage and they would be inclined to look behind and above him to the great house of the government was like a vista of people did not trouble with if they got speech with in the same way they might not always trouble to ask if they had a hint direct from in only one case though it seems to have had many do i find the personally committed the claimed the of on a district of three hundred dollars the german firm accepted a of the whole province of claimed the of as that of a part of and were supported by the government here was false to his own principle that personal and village debts should come before provincial but the case occurred before the of the law and was as a matter of fact the cause of it so the most we can say is that he changed his mind and changed it for the better if the history of his government be considered how it originated in an between the firm and the and was for the firm s sake alone supported by the with foreign the existence of the least doubt on the man s action must seem marvellous we should have looked to find him playing openly and wholly into their hands that he did not great independence and much secret and i believe if the truth were known the firm would be found to have been disgusted with the of its intended tool and often impatient of the demands of his but i may seem to the degree of white opposition and it is true that before fate overtook the government it appeared to enjoy the fruits of victory in and one the stood out to refuse his but th io eight years of trouble in victory was in appearance only the opposition was latent it found vent in talk and thus on the natives upon the least excuse it was	38
ready to flame forth again and this is the more singular because some were far from out of sympathy with the native policy pursued when i met captain he was amazed at my attitude whom did you find in to tell you so much good of me he asked i named one of my he he cried if he thought all that why did he not help me i told him as well as i was able the man was a merchant he beheld in the government of a government created by and for the firm who were his rivals if were minded to deal fairly where was the probability that he would be allowed if insisted and were strong enough to prevail what that as soon as the government were fairly accepted might not be removed here was the attitude of the hour and i am glad to find it clearly set forth in a despatch of s june i th when he the law against and goes on whether the author of this law will carry out the good intentions which he whether he will be allowed to do so if he desires against the opposition of those who placed him in power and protect him in the possession of it may well be doubted had come to in the firm s livery even while he promised in commerce the clerks were a different story in the and the late high feat of the knight had killed all confidence in at the root by these three the german adventure in was defeated i imply that the handful of were the true obstacle not the thousands of for had the frankly accepted the path of germany was clear and the end of their policy however troublesome might be its course was obvious but this is not to say that the natives were content in a sense indeed their opposition was continuous there will always be opposition in when taxes are imposed and the of stuck in men s throats refused to act under the new government from io eight years of trouble in the beginning and his place and title as early as february i find him himself the first step on a dangerous path like his and declared himself a private person but he was more rudely dealt with german sailors surrounded his house in the night burst in and dragged the women out of the an offence against manners no was to be found but at last they were shown his fishing lights on the rowed out took him as he was and carried him on board a man where he was detained some while between decks at last january i th after a farewell interview over the ship s side with his wife he was discharged into a and along with two other chiefs and to the the blow struck fear upon all sides le a very able chief was secretly among the his family and followers murmured at his weakness but he continued throughout the duration of the government to serve with trembling a coming to he seized at the pretext for escape and asked leave to accept an engagement m the company i will not allow you to make a monkey of yourself said and the phrase had a success throughout the islands expressions being so much admired by the natives that they cannot refrain from repeating them even when they have been at themselves the assumption of the name spread discontent in that province many chiefs from thence were convicted of and condemned to labour with their hands upon the roads a great shock to the sense of the becoming which was rendered the more sensible by the death of one of the number at his task was involved in the same trouble his speech at a meeting of chiefs was betrayed by the girls that made the and the man of the future was called to on safe conduct but after an interview suffered to return to his the peculiarly tender treatment of must be explained by his relationship to was of blood the hereditary of the would see no eight years of trouble in him even with some complacency but was himself and men would probably have murmured and would perhaps have had he been harshly dealt with the native opposition i say was in a sense continuous and it kept growing the sphere of was limited to and the north central quarters of practically what is shown upon the map in this volume there the taxes were expanded in the out districts men paid their money and saw no return here the eye and hand of the were ready to correct the scales of justice in the out districts all things lay at the mercy of the native and their with the course of time and the experience of in the spring of the year a very intelligent observer had occasion to visit many places in the island of our lives are not worth living was the of the popular complaint we are groaning under the oppression of these men we would rather die than continue to endure it on his return to he made haste to communicate his im to replied in an where there has been in a country there must be oppression for a time but unfortunately the terms of the may be reversed and personal would have been more in season than wit the same observer who conveyed to him this warning thinks that if had himself visited the districts and inquired into complaints the blow might yet have been averted and the government saved at last upon a certain act of the discontent took life and fire the act was of his own conception the dull dog was ambitious declares he would not be perhaps his adviser did not seriously try perhaps did not dream that in that of the	38
a piece of history battle of chapter v the battle of september the revolution had all the character of a popular movement many of the high chiefs were detained in the to the bush under inferior leaders a camp was chosen near threatening well placed for the arrival of and close to a german plantation from which the force could be came all much of and part of s own government and seat both sides were it was a brave day for the though not so brave as some that followed when a single is said to have been sold for twelve cents between nine and ten cents gold yet even among the a strong party feeling reigned and it was the common practice to ask a upon which side he meant to fight eight years of trouble in on september th published a letter to the chiefs of and in the bush chiefs by authority of his majesty the king of i make known to you all that the german man of war is about to go together with a fleet for the purpose of burning after this island is all burnt tis good if the people return to and live quiet to the people of i say return to your houses and stop there the same to those belonging to if you obey this instruction then you will all be forgiven if you do not obey then all your villages will be burnt like these instructions are made in truth in the sight of god in the heaven the same morning accordingly the out of the bay with a force of warriors and some native boats in tow the fleet in question was the warriors under the conduct of a traitor who paid before many days the of his blood landed and did some damage but were driven away by the sight of a force returning battle of from the no one was hurt for the women and children who alone remained on the island found a refuge in the bush and the and her returned the same evening the letter had been energetic the performance fell below the programme the demonstration annoyed and yet re assured the and it fully disclosed to the a new enemy captain von had been relieved his successor captain was an officer of a different stamp i have nothing to say of him but good he seems to have obeyed the with secret his were of admirable but his habits were retired he spoke little english and was far indeed from von s close relations with commander it is believed by that the american officer resented what he took to be neglect i mention this not because i believe it to commander but because it is typical of a prevailing infirmity among in themselves they read all history in the light of personal eight years of trouble in and and i find this weakness indicated by the big thumb of when he places to small an respect among the causes of the wild career of whatever the cause at least the natives had no sooner taken arms than appeared with violence upon that side as early as the d he had sent an obscure but menacing despatch to on the th he fell on in the matter of the the he wrote had an armed force in the field within a few miles of this harbour when the vessels under your command transported the troops to a neighbouring island with the intention of making war on the isolated homes of the women and children of the enemy being the only other representative of a naval power now present in this harbour for the sake of humanity i respectfully and solemnly protest in the name of the united states of america and of the world in general against the use of a national war vessel for such services as were yesterday rendered by the battle of man s reply to the that he is under the orders of the and has no right of choice reads even humble perhaps he was not himself vain of the perhaps not prepared to see it thus described in words from that moment was in the front of the row his name is but it was not required on every step of his subsequent action in is writ large over all his doings a spirit of humour presided no malice was too small for him if it were only funny when night were made from he would sit on his own and confound them with he was at the pains to write a letter and address it to the high chief a device as old at least as the wars of robert in order to bother the officials of the german in whose hands he persisted in leaving it although the address was death to them and the distribution of letters in formed no part of their profession his great of the affair be in its place and he was no less bold than eight years of trouble in the was not supposed to be a match for the there was no glory to be gained in beating her and yet i have heard naval officers maintain she might have proved a dangerous in narrow waters and at short range doubtless thought so he was continually daring to come on and already in a despatch of the th i find complaining of his language in the hearing of german officials and how he had declared that on the again interfering he would interfere himself if he went to the bottom for it und here is a style of opposition which has the merit of being frank not that of being agreeable was there is no doubt that the in the german were highly and if war between the two countries did not follow we must set down the praise to the forbearance	38
of the german navy this is not the last time that i shall have to salute the merits of that service the defeat and death of and the burning of had thus passed off battle of i without the least advantage to but he still held the significant position of and was to make it good the whole was surrounded with a across the it was six feet high and strengthened with a ditch and the beach was against landing s land claim the same that now over the village in the form of a then appeared in a more military guise the german flag was hoisted and german sailors the at the to protect german property and its trifling the king of much vigilance reigned and in the island fashion much wild firing and in spite of all desertion was for a long time daily the detained high chiefs would go to the beach on the pretext of a natural occasion plunge in the sea and swimming across a broad shallow bay of the join the on the side whole bodies of warriors sometimes hundreds strong departed with their arms and on the th of september for instance the day after s letter too and left with eight years of trouble in their and the whole people returned home in a body to hold a parliament ten days later it is true a part of them returned to their duty but another part off by the way and carried their services and s dear bought guns to on the th there was a of a different kind but yet sensible the high chief had been still detained in under anxious observation his people murmured at his absence threatened to take away his name and had already attempted a rescue the adventure was now taken in hand by his wife a woman of much sense and spirit and a strong and by her contrivance gave his the slip and rejoined his at this process of was of course by another of but the of european and military rule had made detested and with many and the force on is thought to have done little more than hold its own set it down at about two or three thousand i have no estimate from the other battle of side but admits they were not strong enough to keep the field in the open the political significance of was great but in a military sense the position had defects if it was difficult to carry it was easy to and to be hemmed in on that narrow finger of land were an posture for the monarch of the besides was scant of food and destitute of water pressed by these considerations extended his lines till he had occupied the whole of bay and the opposite point his men were thus drawn out along some three miles of irregular beach everywhere with their backs to the sea and without means of communication or mutual support except by water the extension led to fresh sorrows the men themselves in the houses of the absent men of the arose with english and americans interposed in a loud voice of menace it was said the firm by the confusion to up imperfect land claims i am sure the other would not be far behind the firm properties were eight years of trouble in in fences and houses were torn down ensued the german example at was followed with wherever an englishman or an american conceived himself to have a claim he set up the emblem of his country and the beach with the flags of nations all this it will be observed was going forward in that territory by treaty against the presence of armed the themselves looked on in wonder on the th trembling to against the great powers they had written for a of the sa and in conversation with the british replied that he recognised none so long as held the ground this was expedient but suppose it might prove awkward for the stores mills and offices of a great german firm thus of shelter by the act of their own on the morning of the th september just ten days after the death of under the name of to oa was crowned king at on battle of the he wrote to the british and american gentlemen i write this letter to you two very humbly and on account of this difficulty that has come before me i desire to know from you two gentlemen the truth where the boundaries of the territory are you will observe that i am now at a step nearer the enemy and i have stopped here until i knew what you say regarding the territory i wish to know where i can go and where the forbidden ground is for i do not wish to go on any territory or on any foreigner s property i do not want to offend any of the great powers another thing i would like would it be possible for you three to make remove from german property for i am in awe of going on german land he must have received a reply s of the principle at once for he broke camp the same day and marched eastward through the bush behind expecting attack sought to improve his position he refused his centre by the simple expedient of it eight years of trouble in was the two and were still held and fortified as i have said to the on a line from the to the little river the centre was represented by the of a boat across the bay from one flank to another and was held we may say by the german war ship decided am assured to make a on induce to in support and then fall upon and carry that and there is no doubt in my mind that such a plan	38
was abroad for nothing but a belief in it could explain the behaviour of on the th that it was seriously entertained by i stoutly the german flag and sailors forbidding the enterprise in so that we may call this false intelligence the beginning and the end of s the who with the revolt were uneasy and impatient they will still tell you though the dates are there to show them wrong that even after his delayed extremely a proof of how long battle of two days may seem to last when men anticipate events on the evening of the while the new king was already on the march one of these walked into the moon was bright by the way he observed the native houses dark and silent the men had been about a fortnight in the bush but now the women and children were gone also at which he wondered on the sea beach in the camp of the the solitude was near as great he saw three or four men smoking before the british perhaps a dozen in all the rest were behind in the bush upon their line of about the midst he sat down and here a woman drew near to him the moon shone in her face and he knew her for a near by and a of s she looked about her as she came and asked him trembling what he did in the camp of he was there after news he told her she took him by the hand you must not stay here you will get killed she said the bush is full of our people the others are watching them fighting may begin at any moment and we are both here too j eight years of trouble in long so they set off together and she told him by the way that she had come to the hostile camp with a present of so that the men might spare her house by the they met an old man a woman and a child and these also she warned and turned back such is the strange part played by women among the scenes of warfare such were the liberties then permitted to the that these two could pass the lines talk together in s camp on the eve of an engagement and pass forth again bearing intelligence like privileged and before a few hours the white man was in direct communication with the opposing general the next morning he was about breakfast time by two natives who stood leaning against the of a public house where the road strikes in at right angles to the main street of they told him battle was imminent and begged him to pass a little way inland and speak with the road is at this point broad and fairly good running between thick groves of palm and a few hundred yards along this the battle of white man passed a of four armed warriors with red handkerchiefs and their faces in the form of a full beard the signs for the day a little further on some fifty further still a hundred and at last a quarter of a mile of them sitting by the armed and near by in the of a house on a he found seated in white clothes a across his knees his men he said were still arriving from behind and there was a turning movement in operation beyond the so that the should be assailed at the same moment from the south and east and this is another indication that the attack on was the true attack had any design on been in the wind not even a general would have detached these troops upon the other side while they still spoke five women were brought in with their hands bound they had been stealing our all morning the town was strangely deserted the very children gone a sense of expectation reigned and sympathy for the attack was ex eight years of trouble in pressed publicly some men with faces came to s store for a native woman who was there inquired after the news and hearing that the battle was now near at hand give them two more said she and don t put them down to my husband he would growl put them down to me between twelve and one two white men walked toward finding as they went no sign of war until they had passed the and come to the comer of a by path leading to the bush here were four blackened warriors on guard the extreme left wing of the force where it touched the waters of the bay thence the line which the white men followed stretched inland among bush and marsh facing the of the the warriors lay as yet behind trees but all the young boys and of toiled in the front upon a digging with knives and shells and a continuous stream of children brought them water the young worked crouching from the outside only an occasional head or a hand a shell of battle of earth was visible and their enemies looked on from the line of the opposing the lists were not yet prepared the not yet open and the attacking force was suffered to throw up works under the silent guns of the defence but there is an end even to the delay of as the white men stood and looked the line thundered into a it was answered the crowd of silent workers broke forth in laughter and cheers and the battle had begun all day and most of the next night followed and pounds of lead and pounds sterling of money continued to be blown into the air without and almost without result colonel de an old soldier described the noise as the harbour was all struck with shots a man was knocked over on the german war ship half was under	38
fire and a house was pierced beyond the all along the two lines of the enemies exchanged this hail of balls and away on the east of the battle the was maintained with equal spirit across the narrow eight years of trouble in barrier of the the whole rear of the was by this flank fire and i have seen a house there by the river brink that was with bullets like a piece of worm eaten wreck wood at this point of the field a trait of warfare worth brother to already mentioned shot a man he saw him fall and with the lust of glory passed the river single handed in that storm of to secure the head on the further bank as was but natural he fell himself he who had gone to take a remained to afford one and the who had looked on in the prospect of a triumph saw themselves exposed instead to a disgrace then rose one passed the deadly water swung the body of on his back and returned to his own side the head saved the corpse filled with useless bullets at this rate of practice the soon began to run low and from an early hour of the afternoon the stores were visited by customers in search of more an elderly man came leaping and cheering his gun in one battle of hand a basket of three heads in the other a fellow came shot through the it doesn t hurt now he said as he bought his but it will hurt to morrow and i want to fight while i can a third followed a mere boy with the end of his nose shot off have you any give it me quick so that i can get back to fight on either side there was the same delight in sound and smoke and cheering the same of battle and the proceeded with a din and was illustrated with traits of bravery that would have fitted a or a i have said how little i regard the alleged plan of battle at least it was now all gone to water the whole forces of had out man by man village by village on the so called false attack they were all for their lives on the front and the left flank of about half past three they enveloped the right flank also the were driven back along the beach road as far as the pilot station at the turn of the land from this also they were eight years of trouble in fighting one it is told retreated to his middle in the stood there and firing till he fell and his body was found on the morrow pierced with four mortal wounds the force was now enveloped on three sides it was besides almost cut off from the sea and across its whole rear and only way of retreat a fire of hostile bullets crossed from east and west in the midst of which men were surprised to observe the birds continuing to sing and a cow all afternoon doubtless here was the defence in a poor way but then the attack was in irons for the as about the pilot house could scarcely advance beyond without coming under the fire of their own men from the other side of the and there was not enough perhaps not enough authority to divert or to arrest that fire the progress of the fight along the beach road was visible from and despatched ten boats of they crossed the harbour paused for awhile beside the it was supposed for and drew near the shore the t battle of men lay close among the bushes expecting arrival when a silly lad in mere lightness of heart fired a shot in the air my native friend mrs mary ran out of her house and gave the a good shaking an episode in the midst of battle as as the cow but his comrades followed his example a harmless warned the boats what they might expect and they drew back and passed outside the for the passage of the here they came under the fire of the right wing of the on the river bank the beach east and west appeared to them no place to land on and they hung off in the deep water of the inside the barrier feebly the pilot house between four and five the regiment or folk of that village on the left which had been under arms all day fell to be withdrawn for rest and food the regiment which should have relieved it was not ready or not in time and the gallantly by the recovered the most of the ground in eight years of trouble in their proper right it was not for long they lost it again yard yard and from house to house till the pilot station was once more in the hands of the this is the last definite incident in the battle the along the line of the remain concealed from us under the cover of the forest some part of the position there appears to have been carried but what part or at what hour or whether the advantage was maintained i have never learned night and rain but not silence closed upon the field the were deep in mud but the younger folk wrecked the houses in the neighbourhood carried the roofs to the front and lay under them men and women together through a long night of furious and furious and useless meanwhile the older folk back into in the rain they talked as they went of who had fallen and what heads had been taken upon either side they seemed to know by name the losses upon both and with wet and broken with excitement and fatigue they crawled into the of the town to battle of eat and sleep the morrow 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inform me whether or not they are under such protection relations pursued the relations exist between the government of the united states and his imperial german majesty s government but we do not recognise s government and i am desirous of the responsibility for of american rights and lost no time in explanation last exploits of or denial but went straight to the root of the matter and sought to buy off declares that every was offered takes a pride to the and the situations he refused and the long in which he was tempted and plied with drink by or of the firm no doubt in short that he was offered in reason and out of reason and being thoroughly refused it all meantime some answer must be made to and repeated on the th his oft repeated assurances that he was not to deal with politics the same day retorted the question is not one of nor of politics it is strictly one of military and responsibility under the shadow of the german fort at continued the commander have been committed and i again have the honour respectfully to request to be informed whether or not the armed natives at are under the protection of the imperial german naval guard belonging to the vessel under your command to this no answer was vouchsafed eight years of trouble in till the and then in the old terms and meanwhile on the loth got into his the sure sign as was both said and sung aboard his vessel of some desperate or some amusing service and was set ashore at the house of this he took possession at the head of an old woman and a and was seen from the directing operations and plainly preparing to himself there in a military posture so much he meant to be understood so much he meant to carry out and an armed party from the was to have on the morrow the scene of the but there is no doubt he managed to convey more no doubt he was a master in the art of loose speaking and could always manage to be overheard when he wanted and by this or some other equally means he spread the rumour that on the morrow he was to the proposed post from its position and from s well established character as an artist in mischief must have been regarded by the with uneasiness in the we can scarce suppose them to have last exploits of l z but must have both believed h and trembled the of the european z powers was still unbroken no native would e then have dreamed of these colossal ships worked by mysterious powers and laden with instruments of death none would have dreamed of resisting those strange but quite great powers understood with difficulty to be larger than and put together and known to be of prints knives hard picture books and other luxuries as well as of men and inconsistent orders had fallen in ill blood with one of them his only idea of defence had been to throw himself in the arms of another his name his rank and his great following had not been able to preserve him and he had vanished from the eyes of men as the thinks of it beyond the sky had followed him in that new path of doom we have seen how carefully still walked how he dared not set foot on the territory till assured it was no longer sacred how he withdrew from it again as soon as its had been eight years of trouble in restored and at the bare word of a however gilded with promises paused in his course of victory and left his rival in and now it was the rival s turn hitherto happy in the continued support of one of the white powers he now found himself or thought himself threatened with war less than two others boats as they passed were in the habit of firing on the shore as like as not without particular aim and more in high spirits than hostility one of these shots pierced the house of a british subject near the the reported to admiral and on the morning of the loth the admiral despatched captain of the to met the messenger with excuses and engagements for the future he was told his explanations were satisfactory so far as they went but that the admiral s message was to the de king not very well assured of his s courage attempted in vain to excuse him from appearing no de king no message he was told produce your de king and had at last last exploits of to be produced to him delivered his errand that the was to remain for the protection of british subjects that a was to be stationed at the that on any farther firing from boats the was to the and she to fire one gun on which all boats must lower sail and come alongside for examination and the detection of the guilty and that in the event of the boats not obeying the gun the admiral would not be responsible for the consequences it was listened to by and with the greatest attention when it was done desired his thanks to the admiral for the moderate terms of his message and as went to his boat repeated the expression of his gratitude as though he meant it declaring his own hands would be thus strengthened for the maintenance of discipline but i have yet to learn of any gratitude on the part of consider the case of the poor man hearing for the first time our the admiral would not be for the consequences think of it a devil of a position for a de king and eight years of trouble in here the same afternoon was in the house it out for	38
at about fifty yards range and with a very ill direction one bullet whistling over s head on board the the natives jumped overboard and swimming under the lee of the where they escaped a second dragged her towards the east as soon as they were out of range and past the the german border they got on board and again singing though perhaps a different song continued their return along the english and american shore off they were hailed from the by one of the s boats which had been suddenly despatched on the sound of the firing or had stood ready all eight years of trouble in evening to secure the gun the hail was in german the knew not what it meant but took the precaution to jump overboard and swim for land two and some dropping shot were poured upon them in the water but they scattered and came to land in different quarters of the fired the highway a british house was again pierced by numerous bullets and these sudden sounds of war scattered consternation through the town two british subjects a and a land the first being in particular a man well in the native mind and language hastened at once to their assured him the would be roused to fury by this in the that the german quarter would be certainly attacked and the rest of the town and white inhabitants exposed to a peril very difficult of estimation and prevailed upon him to them with a mission to the king by the time they reached the warriors were already taking post round and the agitation of himself was betrayed last exploits of in the fact that he spoke with the standing and gun in hand a breach of dignity perhaps the usual result however followed the persuaded the and the attack was to the benefit of all concerned and not least of to the benefit of all i say for i do not think the were that evening in a posture to resist the liquor of the firm must thus have fallen into the power of the and i will repeat my that a mob is a mob a drunken mob is a drunken mob and a drunken mob with weapons in its hands is a drunken mob with weapons in its hands all the world over in the opinion of some then the town had narrowly escaped destruction or at least the miseries of a drunken sack to the knowledge of all the air of the territory had once more whistled with bullets and it was clear the incident must have consequences and both protested to announced he should report the affair to his government as a gross of the principles of law and as a breach eight years of trouble in of the i positively decline the protest replied and cannot fail to express my astonishment at the tone of your last letter this was it may be said however that was already out of court that after the night and the incident and so many other acts of practical if humorous hostility his position as a was no better than a doubtful jest the case with was entirely different and with was less well inspired in his first note he was on the old guard announced that he had acted on the of his who was alone responsible on the legal side and declined accordingly to discuss whether the lives of british subjects were in danger and to what extent armed was necessary replied that he had nothing to do with political matters being only responsible for the safety of her majesty s ship under his command and for the lives and property of british subjects that he had considered his protest a purely naval one and as the matter stood could only report the case to the admiral on the station i have the last exploits of honour replied to refuse to entertain the protest concerning the safety of her majesty s ship as being a naval matter the safety of her majesty s ship was never in the least this was by the fire of a few shots under the direction of two officers this offensive note in view of s careful and honest bearing among so many other may be attributed to some misunderstanding his small knowledge of english perhaps failed him but i cannot pass it by without remarking how far too much it is the custom of german officials to fall into this style it may be witty i am sure it is not wise it may be sometimes necessary to offend for a definite object it can never be to offend was more explicit although scarce less and his defence may be divided into two statements first that the was proceeding to land with a hostile purpose on second that the shots complained of were fired by the the second may be dismissed with a laugh human nature has eight years of trouble in laws and no men hitherto discovered on being suddenly from the sea would have turned their backs upon the and poured on the friendly shore the first is not extremely but merits examination the story of the recovered gun seems straightforward it is supported by much testimony the operations on the seem to have been watched from shore with curiosity it is hard to suppose that it does not roughly represent the fact and yet if any part of it be true the whole of s explanation falls to the ground a boat which had skirted the whole eastern coast of and was already opposite a wharf in and still going west might have been guilty on a thousand points there was one on which she was necessarily innocent she was necessarily innocent of proceeding on or suppose the operations and the native testimony and s of the boat s course and the boat itself	38
to be all stages of some or steps in a conspiracy suppose even a second to have entered bay after nightfall and to have been fired upon from last exploits of wharf in the full career of against suppose all this and is not helped at the time of the first fire the boat was off wharf at the time of the second and that is the one complained of she was off s wharf in was she still proceeding on i not the danger to german property was no longer imminent the shots had been fired upon a very trifling provocation the spirit implied was that of designed disregard to the such was the impression here on the spot such in plain terms the statement of count to lord at home that the of was only to prevent the natives from fighting not the and that whatever might have promised at the conference he could not german war vessels in their freedom of action there was nothing to surprise in this discovery and had events been guided at the same time with a steady and discreet hand it might have passed with less observation but the policy of was felt to be not only eight years of trouble in reckless it was felt to be absurd also sudden upon native boats could lead it was felt to no good end whether of peace or war they could but they might prove in a moment and when least expected to those who knew how nearly it had come to fighting and who considered the probable result the future looked ominous and fear was mingled with annoyance in the minds of the saxon colony on the th a public meeting appealed to the british and american at half past seven in the evening guards were landed at the on the morrow they were each fortified with sand bags and the subjects informed by that these stood open to them on any alarm and at any hour of the day or night the social bond in was dissolved the like of old dwelt each in his armed the rank and file of the white dared each other and sometimes fell to on the street like rival and the little town not by any fault of the inhabitants rather by the act of had fallen back in about a thousand years last exploits of there falls one more incident to be and then i can close with this chapter i have mentioned the name of the new english it is already familiar to english readers for the gentleman who was fated to undergo some strange experiences in was the de who covered s flank at the time of the disaster in the desert and bade farewell to in before the the colonel was abrupt and mrs de was too exclusive for a society like that of but whatever their superficial it is strange they should have left in such an of a place where they set so shining an example of the sterling virtues the colonel was perhaps no he was certainly no lawyer but he discharged the duties of his office with the constancy and courage of an old soldier and these were found sufficient he and his wife had no ambition to be the leaders of society the was in their time no house of but they made of it that house of mourning to which the preacher tells us it is better we should go at an early date eight years of trouble in after the battle of it was opened as a hospital for the wounded the english and americans what was required for its support of the strained every nerve to help and set up tents on the lawn to be a shelter for the the doctors of the english and american ships and in particular dr of the showed themselves but it was on the de that the distress fell for nearly half a year their lawn sometimes their rooms were with the sick and dying their ears were filled with the complaints of suffering humanity their time was too short for the of pitiful duties in mrs de and her miss the merit of this endurance was perhaps to be looked for in a man of the colonel s temper himself painfully suffering it was viewed with more surprise if with no more admiration doubtless all had their reward in a sense of duty done doubtless also as the days passed in the spectacle of many traits of gratitude and patience and in the success that waited on their efforts out of a hundred cases treated only last exploits of five died they were all well behaved though full of childish one old gentleman a high chief was seized with alarming symptoms of whenever mrs de went her rounds at night he was after brandy others were for or a chief woman had her foot under let me see my foot why does it not hurt she cried it hurt so badly before i went to sleep whose name has been already mentioned had his lay the longest of any perhaps behaved the worst and was on all these grounds the favourite at times he was furiously irritable and would rail upon his family and rise in bed until he with pain once on the balcony he was thought to be dying his family round his mat his father him to be prepared when mrs de brought him round again with brandy and smelling after discharge he returned upon a visit of gratitude and it was observed that instead of coming straight to the door he went and stood long under his umbrella on that spot of ground where his mat had been stretched eight years of trouble in and he had endured pain so many months similar visits were the rule i believe without exception and the grateful loaded mrs de with gifts	38
which had that been possible in she would willingly have declined for they were often of value to the the of my story is one of and the triumphs of temper the hospital at the stands out almost alone as an episode of human beauty and i dwell on it with satisfaction but it was not regarded at the time with universal favour and even to day its institution is thought by many to have been it was opened it stood open for the wounded of either party as a matter of fact it was never used but by the and the were cared for exclusively by german doctors in the of the town these duties of humanity became thus a ground of quarrel when the hurt were first brought together after the battle of and some more or less amateur were dressing wounds on a green by the one from the german went last exploits of by in the road why don t you let the dogs die he asked go to hell was the such were the of but reserved for himself the extreme expression of this spirit on november th began again between the armies and an sent a fresh crop of wounded to the de next door to the some native houses and a chapel now stood on a green and houses were certainly but the ground was under a land claim of the german firm and de wrote to permission in case it should prove necessary to use these for his wounded before an answer came the hospital was startled by the appearance of a case of and the patient was hastily removed into the chapel a rebel laid on german ground here was an the day before his own relief november ordered the man s instant removal by his carriage and singular mixture of violence and cunning he had already largely brought about the fall of and forced eight years of trouble in into an attitude of hostility the whole non german population of the islands now in his last hour of office by this wanton to his english he prepared a continuance of evil days for his successor if the object of be the of failure in the midst of hate he was a great and amongst a certain party on the beach he is still named as the ideal wn the tie chapter vii the november when and fled by night from they carried their wandering government some six miles to to a position above for some three miles to the eastward of the shores of are low and the ground rises with a gentle much of which waves with german a barrier a for boats and the traveller there on smooth many tinted between the wall of the on the one hand and on the other a succession of palm tree and cheerful beach side villages beyond the great plantation of the character of the coast is changed the barrier abruptly ceases the surf beats direct upon the shore and the mountains and forest of the interior de eight years of trouble in sheer into the sea the first mountain is the bay beyond is called and became the of and on the next on steep intricate ground veiled in forest and cut up by and fortified his lines this which proved by arms may be regarded as his front the sea covered his right and his rear extended along the coast as far as and thus commanded and drew upon a rich country including the plain of he was left in peace from i ith october till november th but his adversary is not wholly to be blamed for this delay which depended upon island etiquette his had not yet come in and to have moved again without waiting for them would have been surely to offend perhaps to lose them with the month of november they began to arrive on the d twenty boats on the d twenty nine on the th seventeen on the th the position had so long occupied on the skirts of was deserted all that day and night his force kept streaming eastward to and the on the th the siege of was opened with a brisk each side built facing across the of a brook an endless and shouting maintained the spirit of the warriors and at night even if the firing the continued to exchange from either side of songs and nearer were rendered difficult by the nature of the ground where men must thread dense bush and on the face of was near enough a man if he had a dollar or two could walk in before a battle and array himself in silk or velvet were not common there was nothing to cast gloom upon the and no more danger than was required to give a to the perpetual firing for the young warriors it was a period of admirable enjoyment but the anxiety of must have been great and growing his force was now considerable it was scarce likely he should ever have more that he should be long able to supply them with seemed incredible at the then or soon after current hundreds of pounds m eight years of trouble in ling might be easily blown into the air by the in the course of a few days and in the meanwhile on the mountain opposite his adversary held his ground by this time the of the was americans supplied with english and americans openly together and sent boat loads of provisions to his camp one such boat started from on a day of rain it was pulled by six oars three being paid by three by the himself and a clerk of the were in charge and the load included not only beef and but three or four thousand rounds of they came ashore in and carried the gift to while they were yet in	38
his house a bullet passed overhead and out of his door they could see the on the opposite hill thence they made their way to the left flank of the position next the sea a was visible across the stream it rained but the warriors crowded in their in the the mud and maintained an excited conversation balls flew either both happy as lords for the other in chance shots and missing one point is characteristic of that war in native feeling doubt if it will the next the two white visitors passed without and between the lines to a rocky point upon the beach the person of was well known the purpose of their coming to must have been already abroad yet they were not fired upon from the point they a crow s nest or hanging higher up and judging it was a good position for a general view obtained a guide he led them up a steep side of the mountain where they must climb by roots and of grass and coming to an open with some scattered trees bade them wait let him draw the fire and then be swift to follow perhaps a dozen balls whistled about him ere he had crossed the dangerous passage and dropped on the further side into the crow s nest the white men briskly following escaped the crow s nest was built like a on the front of the position across l o eight years of trouble in the perhaps at five hundred yards heads were to be seen up and down in a fort of s on both sides the same enthusiasm without council the same senseless vigilance reigned some took aim some blazed before them at a venture now when a head showed on the other side one would take a crack at it remarking it would never do to miss a chance now they would all fire a and bob down a return rang across the and was answered harmless as lawn the in vain the warriors drunken with noise made answer by a fresh general discharge and bade their visitors run while it was time upon their return to men were covering the front with sheets of coral two balls having passed through the house in the interval sat within over his bowl unmoved the picture is of a piece throughout excellent courage folly a war of school children expensive guns and used like or wheels on s day on the th changed his attack j the i i i s front was seemingly something must be tried upon his rear there was his bread basket a small success in that direction would immediately his resources and it might be possible with energy to roll up his line along the beach and take the in reverse the scheme was carried out as might be expected from these childish soldiers always uneasy about clung with a portion of his force to and thus had the foe been exposed himself to disaster the expedition fell successfully enough on and drove out the with a loss of four heads but so far from improving the advantage yielded immediately to the weakness of the warrior and ranged further east through bursting with shouts and blackened faces into villages terrified or admiring making spoil of pigs burning houses and destroying gardens the had at first several beach towns in succession and were still in retreat on finding themselves they them one after another and re established their lines eight years of trouble in to the very borders of night fell had taken had lost it and that was all but the day came near to have a different and very singular issue the village was not long in the hands of the when a flying german colours put into the bay and was immediately surrounded by their boats it chanced that was on board word of it had gone abroad and the boats as they approached demanded him with threats the late alone entirely and a prey to natural and painful feelings concealed himself below the captain of the remained on deck pointed to the german colours and defied approaching boats again the of a great power the fell back before the the worked out of the bay escaped he himself apprehended the worst if he fell into hands it is my impression that his life would have been safe on the d a new german the of tragic memory came to from the where she had been the lent islands the rest of that day and all night she loaded stores from the firm and on the morrow reached bay thanks to the of the the most of the was still in the hands of the and they were thus able to receive from the both the stores and weapons the weapons had been sold long since to and pleasant island places unheard of by the general reader where obscure inhabitants paid for these instruments of death in money or in labour them as it was known they would be and had been by force the had brought back the to a german counter whence many must have been originally sold and was here engaged like a in their distribution to fresh such is the vicious circle of the traffic in weapons of war another aid of a more nature was by the to in the shape of german flags the full history of this of falls to be told in the next chapter but the fact has to be here for i believe it was to eight years of trouble in these flags that we owe the visit of the and my next and best glance into a native camp the arrived in on the th on the morrow and landed at the village it was still occupied by mostly from and few in number high in spirit the were meanwhile within range there was maintained	38
foolish but of his successor the dr we may think as of a good enough fellow driven fond of and the he thought to bring peace and enjoy popularity among the of a genial amiable and sanguine temper he made no doubt but he could repair the breach with the english hope told a flattering tale he awoke to find himself exchanging with de beaten in the field by surrounded on the spot by general and from home by his own government the history of his administration leaves on the mind of the student a sentiment of pity scarcely mingled affairs of and on he did not call and in view of s attitude may be excused but the english was in a different england weary of the name of and desirous only to see peace established was prepared to wink hard during the process and to welcome the result of any german settlement it was an fault in to have kicked and his ready made into a state of jealousy anger and suspicion set himself at once to these impressions and the english officials rejoiced for the moment in the change between and de there seems to have been mutual sympathy and in considering the steps by which they were led at last into an attitude of mutual defiance it must be remembered that both the men were sick from time to time with that formidable complaint new guinea fever and de throughout his whole stay in the islands continually was still to be recognised and if possible supported such was the german policy two days after his arrival accordingly eight years of trouble in addressed to a threatening despatch the german plantation was suffering from the of his war party he must withdraw from at once and he went he must approach no german property nor so much as any village where there was a german by five o clock on the morrow if he were not gone would turn upon him the attention of the man and inflict a fine the same evening november th went on board the which began to get up steam three months before such direct on the part of germany would have passed almost without protest but the hour was now gone by s conduct equally timid and rash equally and offensive had forced the other nations into a strong feeling of common interest with even had the german demands been moderate de could not have forgotten the night of the nor how had at his request the attack upon the german quarter with his driver of a captain at his elbow was not likely to behind and affairs of and having communicated s letter the example of the was on all hands exactly followed the hastened on board their respective war ships and these began to get up steam about midnight in a pouring rain communicated to his intention to follow him and protect british interests and replied that he would come on board the and see de personally it was deep in the small hours and de had been long asleep when he was to receive his but he started up with an old soldier s readiness the conference was long de protested as he did afterwards in writing against s claim the were in a state of war they had rights it was monstrous to prevent them from entering one of their own villages because a german kept the store and in case property suffered a claim for compensation was the proper remedy argued that this was a question between and in which de had nothing to see and that he must protect german property according to his instructions to which de n eight years of trouble in replied that he was himself in the same attitude to the property of the british that he understood to be intending against that was to the that its crops were accordingly british property and that while he was ever willing to recognise the rights of the he must prevent that property from being by any other nation but if a german man of war does it asked we shall prevent it to the best of our ability replied the colonel it is to the credit of both men that this trying interview should have been conducted and concluded without heat but must have returned to the with darker at sunrise on the morning of the th the three ships each loaded with its put to sea it is hard to the peril of the that followed as they lay off nobody desired a collision save perhaps the reckless but peace and war trembled in the balance and when the at one period lowered her gun ports war appeared to it proved however to be a last affairs of and fa and therefore surely an unwise extremity contented himself with visiting the rival kings and the three ships returned to before noon beyond a doubt coming after s decisive letter of the day before this impotent conclusion shook the credit of germany among the natives of both sides the fearing they were deserted the as with secret delight hoping they were feared and it gave an to that ridiculous business which might have earned for the whole episode the name of the war of flags british and american flags had been planted the night before and were seen that morning flying over what they claimed about british and american passengers on the way up and down pointed out from the decks of the war ships with generous the boundaries of estates ten days later the beach of bay fluttered as i have told in the last chapter with the flag of germany the americans with claim to s camp some small part of which says did really belong to an american the disease spread the eight years of trouble in flags were multiplied the operations of war became	38
an egg dance among miniature and though all men took a hand in these proceedings all men in turn were struck with their absurdity s successor warned in an emphatic despatch not to and the solemnity of that emblem which was all he had to be a defence to his own and himself in his despatch of march st the practice with much sense but this was after the comic had been reached and the burnt rags of one of these gone on a progress to washington like caesar s body indignation where it came to such results are nations conducted by the patent of a the discussion of the morning the silent menace and defiance of the voyage to might have set the best natured by the ears but and de took their difference in excellent part on the morrow november i th they sat down together with in conference the english affairs of and introduced his who shook hands if were dead with the inheritance of was by reminiscences of it is the more to the credit of this inexperienced man that he should have maintained in the future so excellent an attitude of firmness and moderation and that when the crash came and de not and were found to be the of the drama the conference was futile the english and american admitted but one cure of the evils of the time that the farce of the should cease it was one which the german refused to consider and the agents separated without reaching any result save that relations had been restored between the states and germany and that all three were convinced of their differences and de were still friends they had disputed and differed and come within a finger s breadth of war and they were still friends but an event was at hand which was to separate them forever on december th eight y ears of trouble in came the captain hand to relieve the of course had to take his canvas from the hospital but he had in charge certain belonging to the and with these they made shift to cover the wounded at that time after the fight at more than usually numerous a lieutenant came to the and delivered as i have received it the following message captain hand s compliments and he says you must get rid of these at once and he will help you to do it doubtless the reply was no more civil than the message the promised help at least followed promptly a boat s crew landed and the were stripped from the wounded hand himself standing on the colonel s to direct operations it were fruitless to discuss this passage from the point of view or from that of formal courtesy the mind of the new captain was plainly not directed to these objects but it is understood that he considered the existence of the hospital a source of irritation to and a fault in policy his own rude act proved in the result far more affairs of and the hospital had now been open some two months and de was still on friendly terms with and he and his wife were engaged to dine with him that day by the morrow that was practically ended for the of the had two results one which was the fault of de not at all of hand who could not have foreseen it the other which it was his duty to have seen and prevented the first was this the de found themselves left with their wounded exposed to the of the season they must all be transported to the house and in the distress and pressure of this task the dinner engagement was too long forgotten and a note of excuse did not reach the german before the table was set and dressed to receive his visitors the second consequence was inevitable captain hand was scarce landed ere it became public was writes that he and the were in opposition all that had been gained by the demonstration at was thus immediately cast away de s was lessened and it must be said plainly eight years of trouble in that hand did less than nothing to restore it twice indeed he interfered both times with success and once when his own person had been with vehemence but during all the strange doings i have to he remained in close intimacy with the german and on one occasion may be said to have acted as its after the worst is over after has told that the of his english were that his own conduct has not been good and that in any dispute which may arise he will find himself in the wrong can still plead in his defence that captain hand has always maintained friendly intercourse with the german authorities singular for an english sailor in this on the part of hand we may find the reason and i had almost said the excuse of much that was excessive in the bearing of the unfortunate on the december received twenty eight thousand brought into the country in salt beef by the british ship this not only sharpened the affairs of and between following so closely on the german at it raised a in the camp of on the th addressed to his famous and fatal letter i may not describe it as a letter of burning words but it is plainly dictated by a burning heart and his chiefs he are now sick of the business and ready to make peace with they began the war upon german help they now see and say that e i ma america that germany is to england and the states it is grimly given to be understood that the despatch is an and a last chance is being offered for the ally to fulfil her pledge to make it the more plain the document goes on	38
with a kind of irony the two german war ships now in are here for the protection of german property alone and when the shall have arrived she arrived on the morrow the german war ships will continue to do against the precisely as little as they have done heretofore plant flags in fact eight years of trouble in here was s opportunity could he have stooped to seize it i find it difficult to blame him that he could not far from so as the treachery once contemplated by the acceptance of this would have been still in the nature of a disgrace s letter written by a german was hard to swallow it would have been hard to accept that solution which had so recently and so refused to his brother and he was tempted on the other hand by recent changes there was no to support de who might now be disregarded s successor even if he were not precisely a hand was at least no and even if should show fight had now three ships and could defy or sink him without danger many small circumstances moved him in the same direction the of german continued the whole force of was to a large extent from the crops of and armed men were to be seen openly and under the walls of the plantation building on the night of the th affairs of and the stable had been broken into and a horse removed on the i th there was a riot in between half and sailors from the new ship each side claiming that the other was the worse of drink both for a justly the of flags and little had besides begun to the the of german had been received on the i th the had again sought to land in bay with the manifest intention to attack the or in other words to on german lands covered as your knows with flags i quote from his to december th upon all these considerations he goes on it is necessary to bring the fighting to an end both parties are to be and returned to their villages first and in case of any attempt upon the roads thither are to be held by a strong landing party was to be first perhaps rightly enough in his character of the last then was to have come the turn of but it does not appear the would have had the same import or have been eight years of trouble in gone about in the same way germany was bound to no honest man would dream of because he sought to redeem his country s word the path he chose was doubtless that of honour so far as honour was still left but it proved to be the road to ruin german officer is understood to have opposed the measure his attitude earned him at the time among his country people on the spot and should now to his credit it is to be hoped he extended his opposition to some of the details if it were possible to at all it must be done rather by than force a party of blue landed in bush and expected to hold against a of forest paths had their work cut out for them and it was plain they should be landed in the light of day with a and even with parade to ashore by night was to increase the danger of resistance and to the authority of the attack the thing was a bluff and it is impossible to bluff with yet this was what affairs of and was tried a landing party was to leave the in bay at two in the morning the landing was to be at four on two parts of the of at eight they were to be joined by a second landing party from the by nine the were to be on the crest of mountain and the to be moving round the by the paths with measures of precaution all whom they encountered there was to be no firing unless fired upon at the appointed hour or perhaps later on the morning of the th this business was put in hand and there moved off from the two boats with some fifty blue between them and a or containing ninety the boats and the whole expedition under the command of captain lieutenant the under lieutenant the men had each forty rounds one day s provisions and their filled in the meanwhile about were on the alert had informed the that the ships were to put to sea next day for the protection of german o eight years of trouble in property but the had been less discreet to morrow at the hour of seven they had cried to their you will know of a difficulty and our guns shall be made good in broken bones and accident had pointed expectation towards the wife of le washed for the german ships a i suppose for her husband s unwilling fidelity she sent a man with linen on board the where he was surprised to see le in person and to be himself ordered instantly on shore the news spread if were brought down from others might have come at the same time himself and half his army might perhaps lie concealed on board the german ships and a watch was accordingly set and warriors collected along the line of the shore one lay in some rifle by the mouth of the they were commanded and with this party probably as the most to was the war correspondent john of english birth but american this gentleman had been for some time representing the new york affairs of and world in a very effective manner always in the front living in the field with the and in all of weather toiling to and fro with his his wisdom was perhaps	38
not equal to his energy he made himself conspicuous going about armed to the teeth in a boat under the stars and and on one occasion when he supposed himself fired upon by the had the to empty his revolver in the direction of their camp by the light of the moon which was then nearly down this party observed the two boats and the which they describe as almost sinking with men the boats keeping well out towards the the at the moment apparently heading for the shore an extreme agitation seems to have reigned in the rifle what were the what was their errand were they or had they a mind to attack the was hailed in and did not answer it was proposed to fire upon her ere she draw near and at last whether on his own suggestion or that of hailed her in english and in terms of o eight years of trouble in unnecessary do not try to land here he cried if you do your blood will be upon your head who had never the least intention to touch at the put up the head of the to her true course and continued to move up the with an of some seventy or eighty yards along all the and of the beach across the mouth of the and through the startled village of and seven or eight others to k up spreading the alarm and rousing re as they went presently a man on horseback made his appearance on the opposite beach of and the natives distinctly saw him signal with a lantern which is the more strange as the captain plantation manager of had never a lantern to signal with the kept in many men in white were seen to stand up step overboard and to shore at the same time the eye of panic a of foreign stones brick upon the beach are prepared to day to swear to its existence i believe affairs of and although no such thing was ever made or ever intended in that place the hour is doubtful it was the hour when the streak of dawn is seen the hour known in the warfare of heathen times as the hour of the night attack says the official account a native whom i met on the field declared it was at captain on the other hand is sure it was long before the day it was dark at least and the moon down darkness made the bold uncertainty as to the composition and purpose of the landing party made them desperate fire was opened on the one of whom was here killed the returned it and effected a on the beach and the died again to silence it was at this time if not earlier that returned to here then were and the ninety men of the landed on the beach in no very posture the woods in front filled with enemies but for the time successful meanwhile and the boats had gone outside the and were to land on the other side of the at q o eight years of trouble in by the buildings of the plantation it was part to go and meet them his way led straight into the woods and through the midst of the who had but now ceased firing he went in the saddle and at a foot s pace feeling speed and concealment to be equally helpless and that if he were to fall at all he had best fall with dignity not a shot was fired at him no effort made to arrest him on his errand as he went he spoke and even with the and they answered in good part one fellow was leaping yelling and tossing his axe in the air after the way of an excited go it said and the fellow laughed and his exertions as soon as the boats entered the fire was again opened from the woods the fifty blue jumped overboard down the boats to be a shield and dragged them towards the landing place in this way their and what was more unfortunate some of their miserable provision of forty rounds got but the men came to shore and the plantation house without a meanwhile the und of affairs of and the firing from immediately renewed the at the on shore decided that must be at once guided to the house and the accepted the dangerous errand like he was suffered to pass without question through the midst of these enemies he found some way inland on a engaged the woods around him filled with who were re enforced in three successive charges cheering as they ran the blue burst through their scattered and made good their with four men only remained upon the field the other wounded being helped by their comrades or dragging themselves painfully along the force was now concentrated in the house and its immediate patch of garden their rear to the was but on three sides they were on the left the occupied and fired from some of the plantation offices in front a long rising crest of land in the commanded the house and was lined with the and eight years of trouble in on the right the hedge of the same afforded them a dangerous cover it was in this place that a sharp was knocked over by with his own hand the fire was maintained by the in the usual style the roof was made a the balls passed clean through the house lieutenant as he lay already dying on s bed was despatched with a fresh wound the showed themselves extremely pushed their lines forward ventured beyond cover and continually threatened to the garden thrice at least it was necessary to by a sally the men were brought into the house from the rear the front doors were thrown suddenly open and the gallant issued cheering necessary successful but	38
of trouble in been neglected on the other hand there is no doubt that the m the anxiety of that night of watching and fighting crowded to the friendly for advice late in the night the wounded lying on the colonel s one comer of which had been blinded down that he might sleep heard the coming and going of bare feet and the voices of eager consultation and long after a man who had been discharged from the colonel s employment took upon himself to swear an as to the nature of the advice then given and to carry the document to the german it was an act of private revenge it fell long out of date in the good days of dr and had no result but to the gentleman who volunteered it colonel de had his faults but they did not touch his honour his bare word would always out weigh a of such and he declares his behaviour on that night to have been the question was besides inquired into on the spot by sir john and the colonel but during the weeks that were now to follow believed the contrary he believed not only that and others had supplied the and commanded in the field but that de had made the signal of attack that though his blue had and fallen against the arms of these were supplied inspired and by americans and english the legend was the more easily believed because it embraced and was founded upon so much truth lay dead the german wounded groaned in their and the by which they fell had been sold by an american and brought into the country in a british bottom had the transaction been entirely it would already have been hard to swallow but it was not so british and americans were the of they rejoiced in the result of and so far from seeking to conceal their rejoicing and displayed it ran high before the dead were buried while the wounded yet lay in pain and fever cowardly of cowardice were at the german blue it was eight years of trouble in said they had broken and run before their enemies and that they had huddled helpless like sheep in the plantation house small wonder if they had small wonder had they been utterly destroyed but the fact was otherwise and these cut to the blood they are not forgotten perhaps they will never be forgiven in the meanwhile events were pressing towards a still more opposition on the th the three met and parted without agreement announcing that he had lost men and must take the matter in his own hands to their death on the st the came before ordered the delivery of all arms within the hour and at the end of that period none being brought and burned the village the shells fell for the most part an saw children at play beside the flaming houses not a soul was injured and the one event was the of captain s american flag in one sense an incident too small to be in another this was of historic interest and import these rags of tattered occasioned the display of a new sentiment in the united states and the republic of the west hitherto so and but already stung by german leaped to its feet for the first time at the news of this fresh insult as though to make the of the war ships more apparent three shells were thrown inland at they flew high over the a camp where the natives could hear them singing as they flew and fell behind in the deep romantic valley of the had been already summoned on board the his life promised if he came declared in danger if he came not and he had declined in silence the invitation these fresh hostile acts showed him that the worst had come he was in strength his force posted along the whole front of the mountain behind occupied the road lined up to the houses of the town with warriors passionate for war the occasion was unique and there is no doubt that he designed to seize it the same day of this he sent word bidding all english and eight years of trouble in americans wear a black band upon their arm so that his men should recognise and spare them the hint was taken and the band worn for a continuance of days to have refused would have been insane but to consent was unhappily to feed the resentment of the by a fresh sign of intelligence with their enemies and to the breach between the races by a fresh and a scarce mark of their division the same day again the repeated one of their earlier by firing on a boat within the harbour times were changed they were now at war and in peril the of military advantage might well be seized by them and by others but it so chanced that the bullets flew about the ears of captain hand and that commander is said to have been of apologies the affair besides had a deplorable effect on the inhabitants a black band they saw might protect them from the not from shots panic ensued the war ships were open to receive the and the gentlemen who had made merry over were seen to thrust each other from the in their eagerness to flee i willingly drop the curtain on the shameful picture meanwhile on the german side of the bay a more manly spirit was exhibited in circumstances of alarming weakness the plantation and had all retreated to only one i understand remaining at his post the whole german colony was thus collected in one spot and could count and wonder at its scanty numbers declares to my surprise that the war ships could not spare him more than fifty men a day the great extension of the german	38
quarter he goes on did not allow a full occupation of the outer line hence they had shrunk into the western end by the firm buildings and the inhabitants were warned to fall back on this position in the case of an alert so that he who had set forth a day or so before to the in the open field now found his resources scarce adequate to garrison the buildings of the firm but seemed able by fate it is probable he thought he had eight years of trouble in already in so deep returning were as tedious as go o er it is certain that he continued on the scene of his defeat and in the midst of his weakness to and menace like a conqueror active war which he lacked the means of attempting was continually threatened on the d he sought the aid of his brother to maintain the territory against mat af a and at the same time as though meditating instant deeds of refused to be bound by it himself this singular proposition was of course refused remarking that he had no fear of the natives if these were let alone de refusing in the circumstances to recognise any territory at all in vain and his proposal with the offer of forty eight or ninety six hours notice according as his should be near or within the boundary of the sa it was rejected and he learned that he must accept war with all its consequences and not that which he desired war with the of peace this monstrous the man s frame of mind it has been still further illuminated in the german white book by alongside of his those of the on january th the was destroyed by fire says it was the work of without doubt admits that everything seems to show it was an accident s people fit to bear arms writes are certainly for the moment equal to s though restrained from battle by the lack of as for says of the same date he is now but a phantom er his party for practical purposes is no longer large they pretend to be lacking but what they lack most is good will captain whose influence is now small declares they can no longer sustain a serious engagement and is himself in the intention of leaving by the of the th february and in the same despatch himself and the testimony of his naval by the admission that the re establishment of s government is under present circumstances not eight years of trouble in to be thought of then he was not so much seeking to deceive others as he was himself possessed and we must regard the whole series of his acts and as the of a fever the british steamer returned to january th on the last voyage she had brought the already so frequently referred to as a matter of fact she was again bringing of war it is necessary to be explicit upon this which served as spark to so great a flame of scandal was justified in interfering he would have been worthy of all condemnation if he had neglected in his posture of semi a precaution so and the manner in which he set about attempting it was and almost timid he applied to captain hand and begged him to accept himself the duty of the discharge of the s cargo hand was unable to move without his and at night an armed boat from the searched and kept possession of the suspected ship the next day as by an war and martial law were proclaimed for the islands the introduction of of war forbidden and ships and boats declared liable to search all support of the will be punished by martial law continued the no matter to what the person may belong hand it has been seen declined to act in the matter of the without the of his but i have found no evidence that either hand or communicated with de with whom they were both at drawn first the and next the seem to have burst on the english from a clear sky and he wrote on the same day throwing doubt on s authority to declare war replied on the th that the imperial german government had been at war as a matter of fact since december th and that it was only for the convenience of the subjects of other states that he had been to make a formal declaration from that moment he added martial law in de instantly retorted declining mar eight years of trouble in law for british subjects and announcing a in that sense instantly again came that astonishing document s without pause without reflection the pens on the paper the messengers you would think running from to i have had the honour to receive your s agreeable communication of to day since on the ground of received instructions martial law has been declared in british subjects as well as others fall under its application i warn you therefore to from such a as you announce in your letter it will be such a piece of business as shall make yourself under martial law besides your will be disregarded de of course issued his at once retorted with another and night closed on the first stage of this insane collision i hear the german was on this day with fever charity at least must suppose him hardly for his language early on the st mr a passing traveller was seized in his berth on i board the and carried half dressed on board a german war ship his offence was in the circumstances and after the substantial he had gone the day before in the spirit of a to s camp had spoken with the king and had even recommended him an appeal to sir george grey i gather had	38
been long uneasy this arrest on board a british ship filled the measure doubtless as he had written long before the alone was responsible on the legal side but the captain began to ask himself what next direct home for instructions is arrest of foreigners on foreign vessels legal and was ready at a word from captain hand to discharge his dangerous prisoner the word in question so the story goes was not without a kind of wit i wish you would set that man ashore hand is reported to have said indicating i wish you would set that man ashore to save me the trouble the same day de published a captains to submit to search for of war on the d the times and south sea eight years of trouble in was suppressed by order of i have hitherto refrained from mentioning the single paper of our islands that i might deal with it once for all it is of course a but i have often had occasion to wonder at the ability of its articles and almost always at the decency of its tone officials may at times be a little roughly and at times a little private persons are habitually respected and there are many papers in england and still more in the states even of leading organs in chief cities that might envy and would do well to imitate the courtesy and discretion of the times yet the editor is only an amateur in and a carpenter by trade his chief fault is one perhaps inevitable in so small a place that he seems a little in the leading of a but his interest in the public is genuine and generous one man s meat is another man s poison and have been differently brought up to our experience the paper appears moderate to their sensations it seems violent we think a public man fair game we think it a part of his duty and i am told he finds it a part of his reward to be continually by the press for the on the other hand an official wears a certain when he is called over the coals they are shocked and if the official be a german feel that germany itself has been insulted the times had been long a mountain of offence had imported from the colonies another of the name of jones to deprive of the government german sailors had come ashore one day wild with offended patriotism to punish the editor with and the result was delightfully amusing the asked for the english they were shown the wrong man and the blows intended for had hailed on the shoulders of his rival jones on the th had an article from a san paper the had complained and de in a moment of weakness had the editor twenty pounds the judgment was afterwards reversed in but even at the time it had not satisfied the and so now on the third day of eight years of trouble in martial law the paper was suppressed here we have another of these to the step seemed natural and obvious for it was a hand laid upon the altar and the month was scarce out before the voice of announced to his that free speech had been suppressed in perhaps we must seek some similar explanation for s short lived code published and withdrawn the next day the d himself was in no humour for he was much in the position of a lieutenant who should perceive his captain urging the ship upon the rocks it is plain he had lost all confidence in his commanding officer upon the legal side and we find him writing home with anxious he had understood that martial law implied military possession he was in military possession of nothing but his ship and suspected that his martial should be confined within the same limits as a matter of fact he writes we do not occupy the territory and cannot give foreigners the necessary protection because and his people can at any moment forcibly interrupt me in my yet in the eyes of the severity of his code appeared i give but three of its provisions the crime of german troops by any means as for instance informing them of by the enemy was with death that of or secretly anything whether printed or written bearing on the war with prison or and that of calling or attending a public meeting unless permitted with the same such were the tender of lurking in the western end of the german quarter where could at any moment interrupt his on the d day of the of the times de wrote fo inquire if were intended against great britain which on the same day denied on the d de sent a complaint of hostile acts such as the armed and forcible entry of the before the declaration and the arrest of in his reply dated the th took occasion to repeat although now with eight years of trouble in more self command his former threat against de i am still of the opinion he writes that even foreign are liable to the application of martial law if they are guilty of against the state the same day th de complained that manager for messrs had been summoned by in answer had the honour to inform your that since the declaration of the state of war british subjects are liable to martial law and mr will be arrested if he does not appear here then was the thrown down and de was burning to accept it s offence was this upon the d a steamer had come in from specially to bring german to the rumour came along with her from new that in these would find himself and was accused of having interested himself in the spreading of this rumour his arrest was actually ordered when hand succeeded	38
and it was in this last month the most dangerous of the twelve that man s crowded that of the with costly and ships i have shown perhaps already at too great a length how violently passion ran upon the spot how high this series of and had heated the resentment of the against all other and of all other against the but there the was one country beyond the borders of where the question had aroused a scarce less angry sentiment the breach of the washington the evidence of before a sub committee on foreign relations the proposal to try before a military court and the rags of captain s flag had combined to stir the people of the states to an unwonted germany was for the time the of nations in america publicly the country of their birth in so near the scene of action german and american young men fell to blows in the street in the same city from no source and upon no possible authority there arose a rumour of tragic news to arrive by the next occasion that the had opened fire on the and the had sunk her on the first reply on the day ap pointed the news came and the two nations instead of being plunged in war could only mingle tears over the i s of heroes by the second week in march three american ships were in bay the the and the carrying the flag of eight years of trouble in the rest her injured screw her from steaming vigorously up and a little before day she had struck the front of the coral come off struck again and gone down stem foremost as she went into the gaping hollow of the of her whole of nearly eighty four souls were cast alive on the beach and the bodies of the remainder were by the of the streams at last from the harbour and naked on the of the island five ships were immediately with the same destruction the vanished the four poor on shore read a dreadful on their danger which was swelled out of all proportion by the violence of their own movements as they leaped and fell among the by seven the was so fortunate as to avoid the and beach upon a space of sand where she was immediately deserted by her crew with the assistance of not without loss of life by about eight it was the turn of the she was close down upon the doomed herself it might yet be possible to save a the tion of her crew and for this end captain placed his reliance on the very of the seas that threatened him the moment was watched for with the anxiety of despair but the coolness of courage as she rose on the fatal wave her were simultaneously slipped she to in rising and the sea heaved her bodily upward and cast her down with a on the summit of the where she lay on her beam ends her back broken buried in seas but safe conceive a table the in the darkness had been smashed against the rim and flung below the cast free in the nick of opportunity had been thrown upon the top many were injured in the many tossed into the water twenty perished the crept again on board their ship as it now lay and as it still remains to the waves a monument of the sea s in still weather under a sky in those seasons when that ill named ocean the pacific suffers its vexed shores to rest she lies high and dry the spray scarce touching her the structure of man s hands within a circuit eight years of trouble in of a thousand miles tossed up there like a s cap upon a shelf broken like an egg a thing to dream of the of germany and britain were both that morning in and both displayed their nobler qualities de the grim old soldier collected his family and with them in an agony of prayer for those exposed more fortunate in that he was called to a more active service must upon the striking of the pass to his own from this he was divided by the now a raging torrent the trunks of trees a might have dreaded to attempt the passage we may conceive this brave but unfortunate and now ruined man to have found a natural joy in the exposure of his life and twice that day coming and going he the fury of the river it was possible in spite of the darkness of the and the continual of the seas to remark human movements on the and by the help of always nobly forward in the work whether for friend or enemy sought the long to get a line conveyed from shore and was for long defeated the shore g ard of fifty men stood to their arms the while upon the beach useless themselves and a great of usefulness it was perhaps impossible that this mistake should be avoided what more natural to the mind of a european than that the should fall upon the in this hour of their disadvantage but they had no other thought than to assist and those who now rallied beside as they supposed in doing so a double danger from the fury of the sea and the weapons of their enemies about nine a swam ashore and reported all the officers and some sixty men alive but in pitiable case some with broken limbs others insensible from the of the later in the certain succeeded in reaching the wreck and returning with a line but it was speedily broken and all subsequent attempts proved the strongest being cast back again by the bursting seas all through that day and night the must continue to eight years of trouble in endure their and one	38
officer died it was supposed from agony of mind in his cabin three ships still hung on the next margin of destruction steaming desperately to their dashed helplessly together the was the nearest in she had the close on her port side and a little ahead the close a the under her heel and steaming and on her the unhappy ship with her three dangers about a quarter to nine she carried away the quarter gallery with her boom a moment later the had near her from the other side by nine the dropped down on her too fast to be avoided and clapped her stem under the of the english ship the of which were burst asunder as she rose to avoid cutting her down it was necessary for the to stop and even to reverse her engines and her was at the moment or it seemed so to the eyes of those on board within ten feet of the between the and the writes in his excellent report it the was destruction to repeat s with the was impossible the was too heavy the one possibility of escape was to go out if the engines should stand if they should have power to drive the ship against wind and sea if she should answer the if the wheel and gear should hold out and if they were favoured with a clear of weather in which to see and avoid the outer there and there only were safety upon this catalogue of his all he to the engineer for every pound of steam and at that moment i am told much of the machinery was already red hot the ship was well to of the the last remaining cable slipped for a time and there was no on so cold blooded as to offer a guess at its duration the lay stationary then gradually drew ahead the highest speed claimed for her that day is of one sea mile an hour the question of times and seasons throughout all this roaring business is obscured by a dozen i have but chosen what appeared to be the most consistent but if i am r s eight years of trouble in to pay any attention to the time named by admiral the in this first stage of her escape must have taken more than two hours to cover less than four as she thus crept she buried bow and stem alternately under the in the of the entrance the still held on her was broken her wheel carried away within she was with water from the pipes she had just made the signal fires extinguished and lay helpless awaiting the inevitable end between this melancholy and the external must find a path within fifty yards of the for which she was ally headed and her passing on the i other hand over the s quarter as she rolled the between the rival dangers came to the wind triumphantly and was once more pointed for the sea and safety not often in naval history was there a moment of more sickening peril and it was dignified by one of those incidents that reconcile the with his otherwise task from the doomed the americans the hailed the success of the with a cheer it was led by the old admiral in person rang out over the storm with holiday vigour and was answered by the with an emotion easily conceived this ship of their was almost the last external object seen from the for hours immediately after the mists closed about her till the morrow she was safe at sea again de with a and a loss of all the ornamental work about her bow and stern three one anchor fourteen of chain four boats the and bands and of the shortly after had slipped his cable captain despairing of the succeeded in passing of the in the hope to beach his ship beside the at a quarter to eleven her stern took the r ef her head swung to and she began to fill and settle many lives of brave men were sacrificed in the attempt to get a line ashore the captain exhausted by his exertions was swept from deck by a sea and the rail being soon the took refuge in the tops o eight years of trouble in out of thirteen that had lain there the day before there were now but two ships afloat in harbour and one of these was doomed to be the of the other about p m the parted one cable and shortly after a second it was sought to keep her head to wind with storm sails and by the ingenious expedient of filling the with but in the fury of the gale and in that sea alike by the gigantic and the of the rivers the ship drove down stern foremost into the inner basin plunging and striking like a frightened horse drifting on destruction for herself and bringing it to others twice the still well under command avoided her by the skilful use of and engines but about four the vigilance of the was deceived and the ships the cutting into the s quarters first from one side then from the other and losing at the same time two of her own captain von instantly slipped the remainder of his and setting fore and aft canvas and going full steam ahead the succeeded in his ship in whither recalled by this new disaster had returned the berth was perhaps the best in the harbour and von that ship and crew were in security the guided apparently by an or from the discharge of the followed in the course of the and and skirted along the front of the shore which her was at times almost touching hitherto had brought disaster to her foes now she was bringing it to friends she had already	38
proved the ruin of the the one ship that had rid out the in safety now she beheld across her course the the tops filled with exhausted happily the approach of the was gradual and the time employed to advantage and lines were thrown into the tops of the friendly wreck the approach of danger was transformed into a means of safety and before the ships struck the men from the s main and which went immediately by the board in the collision were already on eight years of trouble in the s decks those from the were next rescued and the settled gradually into a position alongside her neighbour against which she beat all night with violence out of the crew of the forty three had perished of the four hundred and fifty on board the only one the night of the i th was still notable for a howling tempest and extraordinary floods of rain it was feared the t ould scarce to endure the of the seas among the the fate of those on board the awoke keen anxiety and on the beach of and the other officers of his on that of watched all night the morning of the th displayed a scene of rarely equalled the high and dry the and the partly piled on the and herself sunk to the gun deck no sail afloat and the beach heaped high with the of ships and the wreck of mountain forests already before the day the chief of had gallantly ventured forth by boat through the fury of the seas and had sue the in communicating with the admiral already or as soon after as the dawn permitted rescue lines were and the were with difficulty and danger begun to be brought to shore and soon the cheerful spirit of the admiral added a new feature to the scene surrounded as he was by the of two wrecked ships he the band of the and the bay was suddenly with the strains of hail during a great part of the day the work of rescue was continued with many instances of courage and devotion and for a long time succeeding the almost inexhaustible harvest of the beach was to be in the first employment the earned the gratitude of friend and foe in the second they surprised all by an unexpected virtue that of honesty the greatness of the disaster and the magnitude of the treasure now rolling at their feet may perhaps have roused in their an emotion too serious for the rule of or perhaps that was for the moment sails that twelve strong could scarce drag from the water great guns one of years of trouble in which was rolled by the sea on the body of a man the only native slain in all the an infinite wealth of rope and wood of tools and weapons tossed upon the beach yet i have never heard that much was stolen and beyond question much was very honestly returned on both accounts for the saving of life and the restoration of property the government of the united states showed themselves generous in reward a fine boat was presented to and rings watches and money were on all who had assisted the also gave money at the rate as i receive the tale of three dollars a head for every german saved the obligation was in this instance deep those with whom they were at war had saved the german blue at the venture of their lives was besides far from and i can only explain the figure by supposing it was paid from his own pocket in one case at least it was refused i have saved three said the i will make you a present of the three the of the american and german the were now cast still in a temper together on the beach the discipline of the americans was loose the crew of the had earned a character for in other ports and recourse was had to and indeed extraordinary measures the town was divided in two to which the different were confined had his quarter and any seaman a challenge was to be shot dead any tavern keeper who sold spirits to an american sailor was to have his tavern broken and his stock destroyed many of the were german and having these but necessary dispositions wonders grinning to himself over his despatch how far these americans will go in their assumption of over such as they were the measures were successful the mass of was kept in peace and at last in peace out of the islands returned to on the th to find the the sole of thirteen sail he thanked his men and in particular the en eight years of trouble in in a speech of unusual feeling and beauty of which one who was present remarked to another as they left the ship this has been a means of grace nor did he forget to thank and compliment the admiral and i cannot deny myself the pleasure of from s reply some generous and engaging words my dear captain he wrote your kind note received you went out splendidly and we all felt from our hearts for you and our cheers came with sincerity and admiration for the able manner in which you handled your ship we could not have been if it had been one of our ships for in a time like that i can say truly with old j that blood is thicker than water one more trait will serve to build up the image of this typical sea officer a tiny the captain dear to myself from the memories of a six months lived out upon the high seas the fury of that tempest which had piled with the harbour of found a refuge in and arrived at last in the port with a welcome and cargo the of pigs	38
the admiral was glad to have the pigs but what most delighted the man s noble and childish soul was to see once more afloat the colours of his country thus in what seemed the very article of war and within the duration of a single day the sword arm of each of the two angry powers was broken their formidable ships reduced to their hundreds to a of fed with difficulty and the fear of whose the sleep of their both paused aghast both had time to recognise that not the whole was worth the loss in men and costly ships already suffered the so called of march i th made thus a marking epoch in world history directly and at once it brought about the and treaty of indirectly and by a process still continuing it founded the modern navy of the states com ing years and other will declare the influence of that eight years of trouble in chapter xi and i i with the the broken war ships and the sailors i am at an end of violence and my tale flows henceforth among carpet incidents the blue on beach were still held apart by when the powers at home were already seeking a solution it was agreed so far as might be to two years of and to resume in and at those which had been so unhappily broken off at washington in the example thus offered by germany is rare in history in the career of prince so far as i am instructed it should stand unique on a review of these two years of and failure in a little isle of the pacific he seems to have owned his policy was in the wrong he and left suffered that house of cards the government to fall by its own and without remark or left the question openly and fairly to the conference and in the meanwhile to the local by and he sent to that invaluable public servant dr i should be a man if i did not here bear testimony to the loyalty since shown by in their position was painful they had talked big in the old days now they had to sing small even returned to the islands under the prejudice of an unfortunate record to the minds of the his name represented the beginning of their sorrows and in his first term of office he had unquestionably driven hard the greater his merit in the surprising success of the second so long as he stayed the current of affairs moved smoothly he left behind him on his departure all men at peace and whether by fortune or for the want of that wise hand of guidance he was scarce gone before the clouds began to gather once more on our horizon before the first germany and the eight years of trouble in states hauled down their flags it was so done again before the second and germany by a still more emphatic step of returned the exile to his native shores for two years the unfortunate man had trembled and suffered in the in germany in the rainy when he left september was king served by five iron war ships his right to rule like a of the church was placed outside dispute the were still as they were called at that last tearful interview in the house by the river the invincible strangers the thought of resistance far less the hope of success had not yet dawned on the mind he returned november to a changed world the party was reduced to sue for peace was withdrawn was dying of a broken heart the german flag no longer waved over the capital and over all the islands one figure stood supreme during s absence this man had succeeded him in all his honours and titles in more than all his power and popularity he was the idol of the whole nation but the of the and and of these he was already the secret admiration in his position there was but one weak point that he had ever been excluded by the indeed once with the thought of him but the project had no and it stands alone in every other juncture of history the german attitude has been the same choose whom you will to be king when he has failed choose whom you please to succeed him when the second fails also replace the first upon the one condition that be excluded he an official is said to have thus up the necessary in a king and it was perhaps feared that could do no more and might not always do so much but this original was heightened by late events to something upon was the arms of were a still soiled with the blood of german sailors and though the chief was not present in the field nor could have heard of eight years of trouble in the affair till it was over he had from it credit with his countrymen and dislike from the i may not say that trouble was hoped i must say if it were not feared the practice of must teach a very hopeful view of human nature and by the sudden of the last found themselves face to face in conditions of the one returned from the dead of exile to find himself replaced and the other at the end of a long anxious and successful struggle beheld his only possible from the grave the qualities of both in this difficult moment shone out nobly i feel i seem always less than partial to the his virtues are perhaps not those which chiefly please me and are certainly not royal but he found on his return an opportunity to display the admirable sweetness of his nature the two entered into a competition of generosity for which i can recall no parallel in history each the throne	38
for himself each pressing it upon his rival and they embraced at last a compromise and the terms of which seem to have been always obscure and are now disputed at least his style of king of retained much of the conduct of affairs and continued to receive much of the attendance and respect and the two with so many causes of dwelt and met together in the same town like it was so that i first saw them so in a house set about with for there was still a haunting fear of germany that i heard them relate their various experience in the past heard tell with touching of the sorrows of his exile and with simplicity of his resources and anxieties in the war the relation was perhaps too beautiful to last it was perhaps impossible but the king should grow at last uneasily conscious of the de at his side or the king maker be at last offended by some shadow of distrust or assumption in his creature i repeat the words king maker and creature it is so that himself of their relation surely not without justice for had he not and prevailed i years of trouble in and been helped by the folly of and the fury of the storm must have died in exile foreigners in these islands know little of the course of native partly the cannot explain partly they will not tell ask how much a master can follow of the politics in any school so much and no more we may understand of the events which surround and menace us with their results the may perhaps have been to blame are perhaps apt to outside their discipline it is a fault which should be judged with mercy the problem is sometimes so presented that even a moderate and able man is betrayed beyond his own intention and the missionary in such a land as is something else besides a minister of mere religion he represents he is condemned to be an organ of reform he could scarce even if he desired a certain influence in political affairs and it is believed besides by those who fancy they know that the effective force of division between and came from the and natives rather than from before the end of at least it began to be that there was between the two and doubtless this had an influence throughout the islands but there was another of anxiety the had long closed its the text of the act had been long in our hands were announced to right the wrongs of the land question and two high officials a chief justice and a president to guide policy and administer law in their coming was expected with an impatience with a of trust that can hardly be exaggerated months passed these angel still delayed to arrive and the impatience of the natives became changed to an ominous irritation they have had much experience of being deceived and they began to think they were deceived again a sudden crop of superstitious stories about the islands rivers had come down red unknown fishes had been taken on the and found to be marked with menacing a crawled among chiefs in council the gods of eight years of trouble in and made war by night they swam the straits to battle and with dreadful wounds they had the house of a medical missionary readers will remember the in or those in when fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds in ranks and and doubtless such are in simple societies a natural expression of discontent and those who and even those who spread them work towards a conscious purpose early in january this period of expect i was brought to an end by the arrival of chief justice of the event was hailed with and there was much about the new official to increase the hopes already entertained he was seen to be a man of culture and ability in public of an excellent presence in private of a most engaging cordiality but there was one point i scarce know whether to say of his character or policy which immediately and affected public feeling in the and islands he had an aversion part part perhaps constitutional to haste and he announced that until he should have well satisfied his own mind he should do nothing that he would rather delay all than do aught amiss it was impossible to hear this without approval impossible to hear it without practical alarm the natives desired to see activity they desired to see many fair speeches take on a body of deeds and works of benefit fired by the event of the war filled with impossible hopes they might have welcomed in that hour a ruler of the stamp of breathing hurry perhaps dealing blows and the chief justice unconscious of the fleeting opportunity his opinions deliberately in and had been already the better part of half a year in the islands before he went through the form of opening his court the curtain had risen there was no play a reaction a chill sense of disappointment passed about the island and one moment suspended was resumed in the act the three powers recognise on the threshold the independence of the eight years of trouble in government and the free right of the natives to elect their chief or king and choose their form of government true the text continues that in view of the difficulties that surround an election in the present disordered condition of the government shall be recognised as king unless the three powers shall by common accord otherwise declare but perhaps few natives have followed it so far and even those who have were possibly cast all abroad again by the next and his successor shall be duly elected according to the laws and customs of the right to elect freely given in one	38
sentence was suspended in the next and a line or so further on appeared to be by a side wind the reason offered for was false in may when sir edward moved the matter in the conference the election of was not only certain to have been peaceful it could not have been opposed and behind the english it was easy to suspect the hand of germany no one is more swift to smell than a and the thought that under the long bland benevolent a id sentences of the act some lay lurking filled him with the breadth of opposition seems never to have been a popular king on the other hand holds an position in the eyes of his fellow countrymen he was the hero of the war he had lain with them in the bush he had borne the heat and of the day they began to claim that he should enjoy more largely the fruits of victory his was believed to be a stroke of german vengeance his elevation to the was looked for as the fitting crown and of the triumph and but a little after the coming of the chief justice an ominous cry for began to arise in the islands it is difficult to see what that official could have done but what he did he was loyal as in duty bound to the treaty and to and when the of the important and of demanded to his face a change of kings he had no choice but to refuse them and his reproof being to the meeting whether by any neglect of his own or the mere force of circumstance he failed however to secure the o eight years of trouble in sympathy failed even to gain the confidence of the latter is not without a sense of his own abilities or of the great service he has rendered to his native land he felt himself neglected at the very moment when the cry for his elevation rang throughout the group he thought himself made little of on and he began to weary of his part in this humour he was exposed to a temptation which i must try to explain as best i may be able to the of the great name is in the power of the district of some seven miles to the westward of the most noisy and conspicuous of that party are the inhabitants of hence in the elaborate of is always referred to by the name of authority as having the power of the name and by that of or household as forming the immediate family of the chief but these though so important are only small and perhaps the chief force of the the island of has no royal name to bestow and all the five being in the gift of different districts of but she has the weight of numbers and in these latter days has acquired a certain force by the in her of a single man the orator the reader will now understand the peculiar significance of a which should embrace and the of both and how it would represent all that is most effective on the side and all that is most considerable in politics except the opposite party of the and in the temptation brought to bear on even the was was dead his followers had conceived a not unnatural aversion to all from which only the loyal is and a not unnatural admiration for their late successful adversary men of his own blood and men whom he had fought in the field whom he had driven from who had smitten him back time and again from before the rustic of they approached him hand in hand with their enemies and in the same prayer the treaty they eight years of trouble in argued was not carried out the right to elect their king had been granted them or if that were denied or suspended then the right to elect his successor they were dissatisfied with and claimed according to the laws and customs of duly to another the of declared with irritation that their second appointment was alone and the sole the whole body of named him as their choice for king and they requested him in consequence to leave and take up his dwelling in the name place of a step which may be described to european ears as placing before the country his for the crown i do not know when the proposal was first made doubtless the grew slowly every trifle adding to its force doubtless there lingered for long a to give the new government a trial the chief justice at least had been nearly five months in the country and the president baron von rather more than a month before the mine was sprung on may the of was and found empty he and his chiefs had vanished from and what was worse three prisoners from the had accompanied them in their two being political and the third accused of murder having been perhaps set free by accident although the step had been discussed in certain quarters it took all men by surprise the inhabitants at large expected instant war the officials awakened from a dream to recognise the value of that which they had lost at where he was the pledge of peace had perhaps not always been deemed worthy of particular attention at was seen twelve hours too late to be an altogether different quantity with excess of zeal on the other side the officials to their boats and proceeded almost in a body to where they seem to have employed every of flattery and every resource of eloquence upon the fugitive high chief these perhaps excessive in themselves had the fault of being offered when too late showed himself on small issues on the main he restored the prison eight years of trouble in he returned with the to on a	38
flying visit he gave his word that peace should be preserved a pledge in which perhaps no one believed at the moment but which he has since nobly on the rest he was immovable he had cast the die he had declared his he had gone to thither after his visit to he returned again there he has practically since resided thus was created in the islands a situation strange in the beginning and which as its inner significance is developed becomes daily stranger to observe on the one hand sits in a state receives heads his letters government of treats the king as a co and yet declares himself and in many ways himself as a law abiding citizen on the other the white officials in stand contemplating the phenomenon with eyes of growing now with symptoms of now with of violence for long even those well in island manners and the island character daily expected war and heard imaginary drums beat in the forest but for now and close upon a year and against every stress of persuasion and temptation has been the of our peace lay open to be seized he had the power in his hand his followers cried to be led on his enemies him the same way by impotent examples and he has never faltered early in the day a white man was sent from the government of to examine and report upon his actions i saw the spy on his return it was only our rebel that saved us he said with a laugh there is now no honest man in the islands but is well aware of it none but knows that if we have enjoyed during the past eleven months the of peace it is due to the forbearance of our rebel nor does this part of his conduct stand alone he calls his party at the government our government but he pays his taxes to the government at he takes ground like a king he has steadily and refused to obey all orders as to his own movements or behaviour but upon he sends to be tried under the chief justice we have here a problem of conduct and eight years of trouble in what seems an image of very hard at the first sight to be solved by any european plainly does not act at random plainly in the depths of his mind he regards his attitude as regular and constitutional it may be unexpected it may be it may be but he thinks it and perhaps it is in full accordance with those laws and customs of by the of the act the point is worth an effort of comprehension a man s life may yet depend upon it let us conceive in the first place that there are five separate in though not always five different kings and that though one man by holding the five royal names might become king in all parts of there is perhaps no such matter as a of all he who holds one royal name would be upon this view as much a sovereign person as he who should chance to hold the other four he would have less territory and fewer subjects but the like independence and an equal now even if all points were decided against him is and still and as such on this a sovereign prince in the second place the of the act exceeding bold employed the word election and justified all steps towards the according with the customs of i am not asking what was intended by the gentlemen who sat and very and on the whole wisely in i am asking what will be understood by a studying their literary work the act i am asking what is the result of taking a word out of one state of society and applying it to another of which the writers know less than nothing and no european knows much several and several days were employed last september in the fruitless attempt to convey to the mind of the sense of the word resignation what can a gather from the words election election of a king election of a king according to the laws and customs of f what are the measures what is the method of likely to be employed by two three four or five more or less absolute eager to each other and eight years of trouble in who is to distinguish such a process from the state of war in such or i should say differences the nearest we can come towards understanding is to appreciate the cloud of in which all parties treading the crude half on foot half flying now in one part of s behaviour his purpose is beyond mistake towards the provisions of the act his desire to be formally obedient is manifest the act imposed the tax he has paid his taxes although he thus to the ways and means of his immediate rival the act the supreme court and he sends his to be tried at although he thus places them as i shall have occasion to show in a position far from wholly safe from this literal in matters regulated to the terms of the we may infer in regard to the rest a no less exact of the famous and obscure laws and customs of and but though it may be possible to obtain in the study to some such of an understanding it were plainly unfair to expect it of officials in the hurry of events our two white officers have accordingly been no more than was to be looked for and i think they have sometimes been less wise it was not wise in the president to proclaim and his followers and their estates such words are not respectable till they repose on force on the lips of an angry white man standing alone on	38
because it was barbarous and a foul example to set before a race half barbarous itself others because it was others again because in the face of so weak an enemy it appeared almost all because it tended to and war in the midst of the turmoil he had raised and under the immediate pressure of certain indignant white the baron fell back upon a new expedient certainly less barbarous perhaps no more legal and on monday afternoon september th packed his six prisoners on board the and them to the neighbouring low island group of the and we watched her put to sea with mingled feelings anything were better than but this was not good the men had been summoned in the name of law they had surrendered the law had uttered its voice they were under one sentence duly delivered and now the president by no right with which we were acquainted had exchanged it for another it was perhaps no less fortunate though it was more in a stranger that he had increased the punishment to that which in the eyes of ranks next to death exile from their native land and friends and the appeared to carry away with her into the parts of the sea the honour of the administration and the of the supreme court the policy of the government towards has thus been of a piece throughout always would be violent it has been almost always with some appearance of or the policy of though extremely bewildering to any white appears everywhere consistent with itself and the man s bearing has always been calm but to eight years of trouble in sent the fulness of the contrast it is necessary that i should give some description of the two or the two and the ways and means of the regular and irregular government the reader may remember is a narrow finger of land planted in which runs forth into the perhaps three quarters of a mile to the east is the bay of to the west there is first of all a swamp the green the mud ink black and its face crawled upon by countless insects and black and scarlet beyond the swamp is a wide and shallow bay of the bounded to the west by point is the next village to so that from the top of some tall palm in it should be possible to against the eastern heavens the palms of the trade wind sweeps over the low and it from the of the swamp have a quaint phrase in their language when out of health they seek exposed places on the shore to eat the wind say they and there can be few better places for such a diet than the point of and two european houses stand conspicuous on the harbour side in europe they would seem poor enough but they are fine houses for one is new it was built the other day under the title of a government house to be the residence of baron the other is historical it was built by on a and is now occupied by the chief justice on conditions never understood the rumour going that he sits rent free i do not say it is true i say it goes and there is one peculiarity of our officials in a their remarkable indifference to their own character from the one house to the other extends a scattering village for the or native parliament men in the days of this was a brave place both his own house and those of the good and the whole ordered and approached by a way it is now like a neglected and speaks of in all concerned but the chief scandal of is elsewhere the house of the president stands just to of the where the watch is set nightly and armed men guard the uneasy of eight years of trouble in the government on the side there stands a monument to the poor german lads who fell at just beyond which the by may chance to observe a little house standing backward from the road it is such a house as a might use in a bush village none could dream that it gave shelter even to a family chief yet this is the palace of king of as you sit in his company under this humble shelter you shall see between the posts the new house of the president his majesty himself it daily and the tenor of his thoughts may be divined the fine house of a chief is his appropriate attribute yet after seventeen months the government well themselves have not yet found have not yet sought a roof tree for their sovereign and the lodging is typical i take up the president s financial statement of september i find the king s allowance to figure at dollars a month and i find that he is farther though somewhat with the of either two or three clerks take the outside figure and the sum expended and on or for his majesty to ninety five dollars in the month lieutenant and dr the chief justice s friends drew in the same period one hundred and forty and one hundred dollars on account of salary alone and it should be observed that dr was employed or at least paid from government funds in the face of his majesty s express and protest in another column of the statement one hundred and seventy five dollars and seventy five cents are for the chief justice s travelling expenses i am of the opinion that if his majesty desired or dared to take an he would be asked to bear the charge from his allowance but although i think the chief justice had done more nobly to pay for himself i am far from denying that his excursions were well meant he should indeed be praised for having made them	38
and i leave the charge out of consideration in the following statement on the one hand salary of chief justice salary of president baron von about u o eight years of trouble in salary of lieutenant chief of police salary of dr private secretary to the chief justice total monthly salary to four one of them paid against his majesty s protest on the other hand total monthly to and for his majesty the king including allowance and hire of three clerks one of these placed under the of extraordinary expenses this looks strange enough and mean enough already but we have ground of comparison in the practice of white prime minister about white chief of police under in words the king received the second highest allowance on the sheet and it was a good second and the third v as a bad third and it must be bom in mind that himself was pointed and laughed at among natives judge then what is muttered of in his before the president s doors like before the and doors of receiving not so much of his own taxes as the private secretary of the law officer and in actual salary little more than half as much as his own chief of police it is known besides that he has protested in vain against the charge for dr it is known that he has himself applied for an advance and been refused money is certainly a grave subject on but respect costs nothing and officials might have judged it wise to make up in extra politeness for what they of pomp or comfort one instance may suffice appeared last summer on a public occasion the president was there and not even the president rose to greet the entrance of the sovereign since about the same period besides the monarch must be described as in a state of a white man an the true type of all that is most gallant humorous and reckless in his country chose to visit his majesty and give him some excellent advice to make up his difference with unhappily in vivid and language the adviser now sleeps in the pacific but the evil that he o eight years of trouble in chanced to do lives after him his majesty was greatly and i must say justly offended by the freedom of the expressions used he appealed to his white and these whether from want of thought or by design issued an intending visitors to the palace must appear before their and justify their business the majesty of buried was henceforth only to be viewed like a private collection under special permit and was thus at once cut off from the company and opinions of the self respecting to retain any dignity in such an abject state would require a man of very different virtues from those claimed by the not he is not designed to ride the or direct the storm rather to be the ornament of private life he is kind gentle patient as job well of charming manners and when he pleases he has one accomplishment in which he now begins to be alone i mean that he can pronounce correctly his own beautiful language the government of accomplished a good deal and was continually and and attempting more the government of our two has confined itself almost wholly to paying and receiving they have built indeed a house for the president they are believed if that be a merit to have bought the local newspaper with government funds and their rule has been by a number of into which i feel with relief it is unnecessary i should enter even if the three powers do not remove these gentlemen their absurd and disastrous government must perish by itself of native taxes except perhaps from true to his own private policy have long been beyond hope and only the other day may th on the expressed ground that there was no as to how the funds would be expended and that the president refused to allow the of his cash the council has the proposal to call up farther taxes from the all is well that ends even ill so that it end and we believe that with the last dollar we shall see the last of the last now when it is so nearly over we can afford to smile at this io eight years of trouble in passage though we must still sigh over the occasion lost the way to lies round the shores of bay and through a succession of pleasant gloves and villages the road one of the works of is now cut up by pig fences eight times you must leap a barrier of posts the take off and the landing both in a patch of mire planted with big stones and the stones sometimes with the blood of horses that have gone before to make these obstacles more you have sometimes to wait while a black over the so called pig fence nothing can more thoroughly the worst side of the character than these useless which their only road it was one of the first orders issued by the government of after the coming of the chief justice to have the passage cleared it is the disgrace of that the thing is not yet done the village of is a scene of prosperity and peace in a very good account of a visit there published in the the writer and describes it to be fortified she have been deceived by the appearance of some pig walls on the shore there is no no parade of war i understand that from one to five hundred fighting men are always within reach but i have never seen more than five together under arms and these were the king s guard of honour a sabbath quiet over the well green the horses the troops of pigs the round or oval	38
native dwellings of these there are a surprising number very fine of their sort yet more are in the building and in the midst a tall house of assembly by far the greatest structure now in these islands stands about half finished and already makes a figure in the landscape no bustle is to be observed but the work accomplished to a still activity the centre piece of all is the high chief himself king or not king or king of all goes to him all comes from him native bring him gifts and are in return white travellers to their indescribable irritation are on his approach waved from his eight years of trouble in path by his armed guards he summons his dancers by the note of a he sits nightly at home before a semi circle of talking men from many quarters of the islands delivering and hearing those and elegant in which the heart delights about himself and all his surroundings there breathes a striking sense of order tranquillity and native plenty he is of a tall and powerful person sixty years of age white haired and with a white moustache his eyes bright and quiet his jaw which gives him something of the expression of a benevolent his manners dignified and a thought with an air of a catholic he was never married and a natural daughter upon his guests long since he made a vow of to live as our lord lived on this earth and report with breath that he has kept it on all such points true to his catholic training he is inclined to be even rigid the of has recently his wife and taken a fairer and when i was last in with a strange superiority to his own interests had but and just despatched a in his immediate circle in spite of the of his ways he is said to be more respected than beloved and his influence is the child rather of authority than popularity no now living need have attempted that which he has accomplished during the last twelve months with not only to withhold his followers from war but to send them to be judged in the camp of their enemies on and it is a matter of debate whether such a triumph of authority were ever possible before speaking for myself i have visited and dwelt in almost every seat of the race and have met but one man who gave me a stronger impression of character and parts about the situation expresses himself with peace to the chief justice he with some bitterness to with a smile as my poor brother for himself he stands upon the treaty and expects sooner or later an election in which he shall be raised to the chief power in the meanwhile or for an alternative he would willingly embrace a compromise with to which he would eight years of trouble in probably add one condition that the joint government should remain seated at a sensible but not inconvenient distance from white and white officials one circumstance in my last interview particularly pleased me the king s chief is an old employ under and the talk ran some while upon the character of loyalty in this world is after all not thrown away was guilty in eyes of many errors but he stood true to in the course of time a sense of this virtue and of his general has the memory of his mistakes and it would have done his heart good if he could have heard his old and his old adversary join in him yes concluded i wish we had back again a chose est bon so strong is the impression produced by the defects of and baron that i believe far from singular in this opinion and that the return of the upright might be even welcome to many i must add a last touch to the picture of and the s life about four in and the morning the visitor in his house will be awakened by the note of a pipe blown without very softly and to a soothing melody this is s private luxury to lead on pleasant dreams we have a bird here in that about the same hour of darkness sings in the bush the father of while he lived was a great friend and protector to all living creatures and passed under the by name of the king of birds it may be it was among the of the that the son acquired his fancy for this morning music i have now sought to render without the impressions received of dignity plenty and peace at of and distraction at and i wish i might here bring to an end ungrateful labours but i am sensible that there remain two points on which it would be improper to be silent i should be blamed if i did not indicate a practical conclusion and i should blame myself if i did not do a little justice to that tried company of the land the land commission has been in many eight years of trouble in senses unfortunate the original german member a gentleman of the name of fell early into precarious health his work was from the first interrupted he was at last to the regret of all that knew him home and his successor has but just arrived in like manner the first american henry c a man of character and intelligence was recalled i believe by private affairs when he was but just settling into the spirit of the work and though his place was promptly filled by ex governor a worthy successor distinguished by strong and common sense the break was again sensible the english my friend michael haggard is thus the only one who has continued at his post since the beginning and yet in spite of these unusual changes the commission	38
has a record perhaps among it has been unanimous practically from the first until the last and out of some four hundred cases disposed of there is but one on which the members were divided it was the more unfortunate they should have early fallen in a and difficulty with the chief justice the original ground of this is supposed to be a difference of opinion as to the import of the act on which as a it would be if i were to offer an opinion but it must always seem as if the chief justice had suffered himself to be irritated beyond the bounds of discretion it must always seem as if his original attempt to deprive the of the services of a secretary and the use of a safe were even senseless and his step in and a denying their were equally and the dispute had a secondary result worse than itself the gentleman appointed to be natives advocate shared the chief justice s opinion was his close intimate advised with him almost daily and drifted at last into an attitude of opposition to his he suffered himself besides being a in law to embrace the interest of his with something of the warmth of a disagreeable scenes occurred in court the advocate was more than once he was warned that his with the judge of appeal tended to damage his eight years of trouble in own character and to lower the credit of the court having lost some cases on which he set importance it should seem that he spoke among natives a sudden cry of colour prejudice went up and were heard to assure each other that it was useless to appear before the land commission which was sworn to support the this deplorable state of affairs was brought to an end by the departure from of the natives advocate he was succeeded pro by a young new e w not much more in law than himself and very much less so in whether by more skill or better fortune has been able in the course of a few weeks to recover for the natives several important tracts of land and the prejudice against the commission seems to be as fast as it arose i should not omit to say that in the eagerness of the original advocate there was much that was amiable nor must i fail to point out how much there was of blindness fired by the of pursuit he seems to have regarded his immediate as the only natives and the and and emblem of the race thus in the case that was the most exclaimed against as an injustice to natives his was certainly but in that intricate affair who lost the money the german firm and who got the land other natives to twist such a decision into evidence either of a prejudice against or a partiality to is to keep one eye shut and have the other and lastly one word as to the future and stand over against each other rivals with no third they may be said to hold the great name of in commission each has borne the style each exercised the authority of a king one is secure of the small but compact and fervent following of the the other has the sympathies of a large part of the majority and upon any sign of catholic would have more with men so nearly balanced it may be asked whether a prolonged successful exercise of power be possible for either in the case of the feeble it is not we have the proof before us eight years of trouble in nor do i think we should judge from what we see to day that it would be possible or would continue to be possible even for the it is always the easier game to be in opposition the tale of david and would be once more we shall have two kings in the land the latent and the patent and the house of the first will become once more the resort of every one that is in distress and every one that is in debt and every one that is discontented against such odds j it is my fear that might contend in vain it is beyond the bounds of my imagination that should contend at all foreign ships and is the cure proposed in i and certainly if people at home desire that money should be thrown away and blood shed in an effect of a kind and for the time may be produced its nature and i will ask readers of 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trouble taken nor temper and if my plain i i m fer l cost me any of the friends that i still count i shall be sorry but i need not be ashamed in one particular the of words has been altered and the characteristic n of the language written throughout ng instead of g thus i put instead of the sound being that of soft ng in english as in singer not as in finger xv l s contents preface v chapter i elements of discord native i chapter n elements of discord foreign chapter hi the sorrows of i j to september chapter iv september i y to august chapter v the battle of september viii contents chapter vi last of september ber chapter the november i s chapter affairs of and november december chapter ix december to march i g chapter x the f march i g chapter xi and i g i g map op a part or the north coast of a inch to x eight years of trouble in chapter i the elements of discord native the story i have to tell is still going on as i write the characters are alive and active it is a piece of contemporary history in the most exact sense and yet for all its and the part played in it by and and iron war ships the ideas and the manners of the native actors date back before the roman empire they are christians singers of hymns at family worship hardy their books are printed in london by or the tract society but in most other points they are the of our ancestors who drove their on the wrong side of the roman wall we have passed the eight years of trouble in they are not yet clear of the we are in the thick of the age of they are in a period of and this makes them hard to understand to us with our ideas has the first appearance of a land of an elaborate marks the race alone among terms of ceremony fly thick as oaths on board a ship each other when they meet and as they play and for the real noble a whole private dialect is set apart e common names for an axe for blood for a knife a pig food and an oven are in his presence as the common names for a and for many offices and members of the body are in the drawing rooms of english ladies special words are set apart for his leg bis face his hair his belly his eyelids his son his daughter his wife his wife s his wife s with his wife his dwelling his spear his comb his sleep his dreams his anger the mutual anger of several chiefs his food his pleasure in eating the food and eating of his his his elements of discord native cough his sickness his recovery his death his being carried on a the of his bones and his skull after death to address these is quite a branch of knowledge and he who goes to visit a high chief does well to make sure of the of his to complete the picture the same word the watching of a virgin and the of a chief and the same word means to cherish a chief and to a favourite child men like us full of memories of hear of a man so addressed so flattered and we leap at once to the conclusion that he is hereditary and absolute hereditary he is bom of a great family he must always be a man of mark but yet his office is and in a weak sense is held on good behaviour compare the case of a chief bom one of the great ones of his he was sometimes appointed its chief officer and conventional father was loved and respected and served and fed and died for if he gave loyalty a chance and yet if he sufficiently outraged sentiment was liable to as to eight years of trouble in authority the parallel is not so close doubtless the chief if he be popular a great influence but it is limited important matters are in a f or native parliament with its and parade its endless speeches and polite allusions i say not decided for even a small will often strike a or a province impotent in the midst of these the chief sits usually silent a kind of a audience for village and the of the seems for the moment to be final the absolute chiefs of and were addressed as plain john and thomas the chiefs of are with but the seat and extent of their actual authority is hard to find it is so in the members of the state and worse in the belly the idea of a sovereign the air the name we have the thing we are not so sure of and the process of election to the chief power is a mystery certain provinces have in their gift certain high titles or names as they are called these can only be attributed to the descendants of elements of discord native lar lines once granted each name at once the whatever that be worth of the province which it and counts as one towards the general of to be king they say or some of them say i find few in perfect harmony a man should resume five of these names in his own person but the case is purely local jealousy its occurrence there are rival provinces far more concerned in the of their than in the choice of a right man for king if one of these	38
shall have bestowed its name on a it will be the signal and the sufficient reason for the other to bestow its name on b or c the majority of and that of are thus in opposition nor is this all in the present king held the three names of and held that of and that of had thus a majority of he held perhaps as high a proportion as can be hoped in these distracted islands and he counted among the number the eight years of trouble in name of here if ever was an election here if a king were at all possible was the king and yet the natives were not satisfied was crowned march th and next month the provinces of and met in joint parliament and elected their own two princes and to an alternate taking the first trick of two years war was imminent when the interfered and any war were to the terms of the peace which they procured by the treaty was confirmed king and set by his side in the office of vice king the compromise was not i am told without precedent but it lacked all appearance of success to the constitution of which was already all wheels and no horses the had added a fifth wheel in addition to the old who is the king they had supplied a new one what is the vice king two royal lines some cloudy idea of between the two an in which the vote of each province is immediately effectual as regards itself so that every candidate elements of discord native who one name becomes a perpetual and dangerous for the other four such are a few of the more many argue that the whole idea of is modem and imported but it seems impossible that anything so foolish should have been suddenly devised and the constitution bears on its front the marks of but the king once elected and what does he become it may be said he remains precisely as he was election to one of the five names is significant it brings not only dignity but power and the is secure from that moment of a certain following in war but i cannot find that the further step of election to the anything worth mention the successful candidate is now the o much good may it do him he can so sign himself on which it does not follow that any one will heed he can summon it does not follow they will if he be too he can go to war but so he could before when he was only the chief of certain provinces his own provinces will eight years of trouble in support him the provinces of his rivals will take the field upon the other part just as before in so far as he is the of any of the five in short he is a man to be reckoned with in so far as he is king of i cannot find but what the president of a college society is a far more formidable officer and unfortunately although the credit side of the account proves thus imaginary the side is actual and heavy for he is now set up to be the mark of he will be to raise taxes to make roads to punish crime to rebellion and how he is to do it is not asked if i am in the least right in my of this obscure matter no one need be surprised to hear that the land is full of war and of war scarce a year goes by but what some province is in arms or sits sulky and menacing holding the king s and planting food in the bush the first step of military preparation the religious sentiment of the people is indeed for peace at any price no can bear arms and even the who does so elements of discord native is denied the in the last war the college of where the picked youth are prepared for the lost but a single the rest in the bosom of a bleeding country and deaf to the voices of vanity and honour peacefully pursued their studies but if the church looks on war the warrior v in no extremity of need or passion forgets his consideration for the church the houses and gardens of her ministers stand safe in the midst of armies a way is reserved for themselves along the beach where they may be in their white and openly passing the lines while not a hundred yards behind the will be exchanging the useless of warfare women are also respected they are not fired upon and they are suffered to pass between the hostile exchanging gossip spreading rumour and to either army the secret of the other this is plainly no savage war it has all the of the and all his parade battles fine dresses and songs and the field and the young soldier comes to camp burning on lo eight years of trouble in the one hand to distinguish himself by acts of and on the other to display his acquaintance with field etiquette thus after became involved in against the and had another code to observe besides his own he was always asking his white if things were done correctly let us try to be as wise as and to conceive that etiquette and morals differ in one country and another we shall be the less surprised to find war with some customs the childish destruction of fruit trees in an enemy s country the resources of and the habit of head hunting not only foreigners but has begun to exercise the minds of the natives themselves soon after the german heads were taken mr came missionary had occasion to visit s camp and spoke of the practice with said one chief we have just been ourselves to guess where that custom came	38
from but is it not so that when david killed he cut off his head and carried it before the king with the civil life of the inhabitants we have elements of discord native ii far less to do and yet even here a word of preparation is inevitable they are easy merry and pleasure loving the though by far from either the most capable or the most beautiful of fine dress is a passion and makes a festival a thing of beauty song is almost ceaseless the sings at the oar the family at evening worship the girls at night in the guest house sometimes the workman at his toil no occasion is too small for the poets and a death a visit the day s news the day s will be set to rhyme and harmony even half grown girls the occasion arising fashion words and train of children for its song as with all pacific goes hand in hand with the dance and both shade into the drama some of the performances are and ugly some only dull others are pretty funny and attractive games are popular matches where a played upon a side endured at times for weeks and ate up the country like the presence of an army fishing the daily bath courtship which is gone upon by conversation which is eight years of trouble in largely political and the delights of public fill in the long hours but the special delight of the is the when people form a party and go from village to village and they are said to go on a their songs have announced their approach ere they arrive the guest house is prepared for their reception the of the village attend to prepare the bowl and entertain them with the dance time flies in the enjoyment of every pleasure which an and when the sets forth the same welcome and the same joys expect them beyond the next cape where the nearest village in its grove of palms to the visitors it is all golden for the hosts it has another side in one or two words of the language the fact out the same word expresses a long call and to come as a calamity the same word to have no of pain and to have no as in the arrival of visitors and used of bears the sense of being overcome as with fire flood or visitors but elements of bi native the of the dictionary is the which its pages like a humorous it is used in the sense of to avoid visitors but it means literally hide in the wood so by the sure hand of popular speech we have the picture of the house deserted the disappointed and the host that should have been h we are thus brought to the beginning of a series of traits of manners highly curious in themselves and essential to an understanding of the war in authority sits on the one hand on the other property stands bound in the midst of what property exists is in the family not in the individual and of the loose in which a family dwells the dictionary may yet again help us to some idea l find a string of with the following senses to deal with as in helping from a family plantation to give away without consulting other members of the family to go to strangers for help instead of to relatives to take from relatives without permission to steal from relatives to have eight years of trouble in robbed by relatives the ideal of conduct in the family and some of its appear here very plainly the man who in a native word of praise is a race has his hand always open to his the man who is not in a native term of contempt knows always where to turn in any pinch of want or extremity of the family and by the less self respecting without it has thus grown into a custom and a and the dictionary with evidence of its abuse special words signify the begging of food of food of fish of pigs of pigs for travellers of pigs for stock of of tops of tops for planting of tools of of implements for and of it is true the beggar was supposed in time to make a return somewhat as by the roman contract of but the obligation was only moral it could not be or was not enforced as a matter of fact it was disregarded the language had recently to borrow from the a word for debt while by a significant it possessed a native elements of discord native expression for the failure to pay to omit to make a return for property begged conceive now the position of the by and all defence denied him by the laws of honour the gesture of refusal his last and single resource was supposed to signify my house is destitute until that point was reached in other words the conduct prescribed for a was to give and to continue giving but it does not appear he was at all expected to give with a good grace the dictionary is well with expressions standing ready like to be discharged upon the troop of shame faced ones you draw in your head like a you make your voice small like a whistle pipe you beg like one and the to look cross is equipped with the rider as at the sight of beggars this insolence of beggars and the weakness of can only be illustrated by examples we have a girl in our service to whom we had given some finery that she might wait at table and at her own request some warm eight years of trouble in clothing against the cold mornings of the bush she went on a visit to her family and returned in an old	38
her whole wardrobe having been divided out among relatives in the course of twenty four hours a in the province of being a handy busy man bought a boat for a hundred dollars fifty of which he paid down presently after relatives came to him upon a visit and took a fancy to his new possession we have long been wanting a boat said they give us this one so when the visit was done they departed in the boat the meanwhile travelled into the best way he could sold a parcel of land and begged among his other relatives to pay the remainder of the price of the boat which was no longer his you might think this was enough but some months later the having broken a brought back the boat to be repaired and by the original owner such customs it might be argued being double edged will ultimately right themselves but it is otherwise in practice such folk as the s relatives will generally have elements of discord native a boat and will never have paid for it such men as the may have sometimes paid for a boat but they will never have one it is there as it is with us at home measure of the abuse of either system is the of the individual heart the same man who would drive his poor relatives from his own door in england would in the doors of the rich and the essence of the in either case is to pursue one s own advantage and to be indifferent to the losses of one s neighbour but the particular of the system is to and industry to work more is there only to be more to save is impossible the family has then made a good day of it when all are filled and nothing remains over for the crew of and the injustice of the system begins to be recognised even in one native is said to have a certain fortune two clever lads have expressed to us their discontent with a system which taxes industry to idleness and i hear that in one village of a law has been passed forbidding gifts under the penalty of a sharp fine eight years of trouble in under this the of taxes which strike all at the same time which expose the industrious to a perfect siege of and the lazy to be actually condemned to a day s labour may be imagined without words it is more important to note the of all sense of property from applying for help to who are scarce permitted to refuse it is but a step to taking from them in the dictionary phrase without permission from that to at large is but a hair s breadth elements of discord foreign chapter ii the of discord foreign the huge majority of like other god fearing folk in other countries are perfectly content with their own manners and upon one condition it is plain they might enjoy themselves far beyond the average of man seated in islands very rich in food the idleness of the many idle would scarce matter and the provinces might continue to bestow their names among rival and fall into war and enjoy that awhile and drop into peace and enjoy that in a manner highly to be envied but the condition that they should be let alone is now no longer possible more than a hundred years ago and following closely on the heels of cook an irregular invasion of began to about the of the pacific the seven of stand still but half aroused in the midst of the eight years of trouble in of competition and the island races to a of launched upon the stream time now fall to make their desperate voyage among pots of brass and the port and is the seat of the political sickness of at the foot of a mountain the coast makes a deep roughly in front the barrier is broken by the fresh water of the streams if the swell be from the north it enters almost without and the roll at their and along the coral which follows the of the beach the surf breaks with a continuous uproar in wild weather as the world knows the roads are along the whole shore which is everywhere green and level and overlooked by inland mountain tops the town lies drawn out in strings and clusters the western horn is the eastern and from one to the other of these extremes i ask the reader to walk he will find more of the history of spread before his eyes in that excursion than has yet elements of discord foreign been collected in the blue books or the of the world where the walk is to begin is a flat wind swept planted with palms backed against a swamp of and occupied by a rather miserable village the reader is informed that this is the proper residence of the kings he will be the more surprised to observe a board set up and to read that this historic village is the property of the german firm but these boards which are among the commonest features of the landscape may be rather taken to imply that the claim has been disputed a little further east he skirts the stores offices and of the firm itself thence he will pass through the one really town like portion of this long string of villages by german bars and stores and the german and reach the catholic mission and cathedral standing by the mouth of a small river the bridge which crosses here bridge of is a frontier behind is beyond proper behind are supreme beyond with but few exceptions all is saxon here the reader will go eight years of in forward past the stores of mr american and messrs english past the english mission the office of the	38
is found to return the compliment each with a good story to the proof there is so much in the islands and no more a man s share of it is his share of bread and commerce like politics is here to a shows its ugly side and becomes as personal as close at their elbows in all this stands the native looking on like a child his true he and is usually silent as in a child a considerable of speech is accompanied by some power of secrecy news he his eight years of trouble in thoughts have often to be dug for he looks on at the rude career of the dollar hunt and wonders he sees these men rolling in a luxury beyond the ambition of native kings he hears them accused by each other of the meanest he knows some of them to be guilty and what is he to think he is strongly conscious of his own position as the common milk cow and what is he to do surely these white men on the beach are not great chiefs is a common question perhaps asked with some design of flattering the person questioned and one stung by the last incident into an unusual flow of english remarked to me i begin to be weary of white men on the beach but the true centre of trouble the head of the boil of which is the german firm from the conditions of business a great island house must ever be an inheritance of care and it chances that the greatest still has its chief seat in bay and has sunk the main part of its capital in the island of when its founder john caesar went over russian paper and iron his most considerable was found to elements of discord foreign be the south sea business this passed i understand through the hands of brothers in london and is now run by a company rejoicing in the name of the und fur see this piece of literature is in practice to the d h and p g the old firm the german firm the firm and among the long handle firm even from the deck of an approaching ship the island is seen to bear its signature of cultivation showing in a more vivid tint of green on the dark of forest the total area in use is near ten thousand acres hedges of fragrant lime broad avenues them you shall walk for hours in of palm tree regular like soldiers on parade in the recesses of the hills you may on a mill house toiling and trembling there deep in forest on the carpet of clean troops of horses and herds of handsome cattle may be seen to and to one accustomed to the rough of the the appearance is of the many of them eight years of trouble in man sea captains are enthusiastic in their new employment experiment is continually coffee and both of excellent quality are among the more recent and from one plantation quantities of are sent at a particular season to the a hundred and fifty thousand pounds of english money perhaps two hundred thousand lie sunk in these magnificent estates in the expense of maintenance quite a fleet of ships must be remembered and a strong staff of captains and clerks these last mess together at a liberal board the wages are high and the staff is inspired with a strong and pleasing sentiment of loyalty to their seven or eight hundred imported men and women toil for the company on of three or of five years and at a of a few dollars in the month i am now on a burning question the labour traffic and i shall ask permission in this place only to touch it with the suffice it to say that in new and it has been either suppressed or placed under elements of discord foreign close public in where it still there is no of which the public receives any evidence and the dirty linen of the firm if there be any dirty and if it be ever washed at all is washed in private this is unfortunate if would believe it but they have no idea of keep their business to themselves rather affect to move in a mysterious way and are naturally by which they consider from men who would import labour for themselves if they could afford it and would probably them if they dared it is said the whip is very busy on some of the it is said that extra labour by which the s term of service is extended has grown to be an abuse and it is complained that even where that term is out much occurs in the of the discharged to all this i can say nothing good or bad a certain number of the many of them wild from the west have taken to the bush harbour there in a state partly or creep into the back quarters of the town to do a day s eight years of trouble in stealthy labour under the nose of their twelve were arrested one morning in my own boys kitchen further in the bush huts small patches of cultivation and smoking have been found by hunters there are still three in the woods of whither they escaped upon a and the regard these dark with extreme alarm the fourth in was shot down as i was told in that island while carrying off the virgin of a village and tales of run round the country and the natives shudder about the evening fire for the are not do not seem to remember any period when they were and regard the practice with a equal to our own the firm is among the and it must not be forgotten that while the small independent are fighting for their own hand and with the usual	38
jealousy against the are inspired with a sense of the greatness of their affairs and interests the thought of the money sunk the sight of these costly and beautiful elements of discord foreign tions yearly by the returning forest and the responsibility of with one hand so many fortunes might well nerve the manager of such a company for desperate and questionable deeds upon this scale commercial has an air of patriotism and i can imagine the man so far from over the for a few solomon prepared to rival overthrow inconvenient and let loose the dogs of war whatever he may decide he will not want for every clerk will be eager to be up and strike a blow and most in the group whatever they may of the firm over the and the wine will rally round the national concern at the approach of difficulty they are so few i am ashamed to give their number it were to challenge contradiction they are so few and the amount of national capital buried at their feet is so vast that we must not wonder if they seem oppressed with greatness and the sense of empire other take part in our while temper holds out with a certain entertainment in the eight years of trouble in alone no trace of humour is to be observed and their solemnity is accompanied by a often beyond belief y patriotism flies in arms about a hen and if you comment upon the colour of a dutch umbrella you have cast a stone against the german emperor i give one instance typical although extreme one who had returned from on the mail complained of the with which she is he was suddenly and sharply brought to a stand the ship of which he spoke he was reminded was a german ship john caesar himself had never visited the islands his sons and came indeed but scarcely to reap and the and of this great concern until death took him was a certain remarkable man of the name of was of an artful and commanding character in the smallest thing or the greatest without fear or scruple equally able to affect equally ready to adopt the most engaging politeness or the most imperious airs of it was he who did most damage to rival it was he who most the and yet i elements of foreign never met any one white or native who did not respect his memory all felt it was a gallant battle and the man a great and now when he is dead and the war seems to have gone against him many can scarce remember without a kind of regret how much devotion and audacity have been spent in vain his name still lives in the songs of one that i have heard tells of and a box the suggesting incident being long since forgotten another sings how all things land and food and property pass as by a law of nature into the hands of and soon nothing will be left for this is an the man would have enjoyed at one period of his career combined the offices of of the firm and for the city of no question but he then drove very hard admit that the combination was unfortunate and it was a german who procured its overthrow captain him with an imperial appointment one still remembered in as the gentleman who acted justly there was no house to eight years of trouble in be found and the new must take up his quarters at first under the same roof with on several questions in which the firm was interested embraced the contrary opinion riding one day with an englishman in plantation he was startled by a burst of screaming leaped from the saddle ran round a house and found an beating one of the he punished the and being a kindly and perhaps not a very man talked high of what he felt and what he might consider it his duty to forbid or to enforce the firm began to look at such a and worse was behind a number of deeds being brought to the for detected certain of land in which the date the boundaries the measure and the consideration were all blank he refused them with an indignation which he does not seem to have been able to keep to himself and whether or not by his fault some of these unfortunate documents became public it was plain that the relations between the two of the german invasion the and the commercial were strained to bursting elements of discord foreign but was a man ill to conquer was recalled and from that time forth whether through influence at home or by the of on the spot the german has shown itself very apt to play the game of the german firm that game we may say was the first part even the second at least natural on the one part they desired an efficient native administration to open up the country and punish crime they wished on the other to extend their own provinces and to the dealings of their rivals in the first they had the jealous and sympathy of all in the second they had all together against them for their lives and it was thus a game of beggar my neighbour between a large merchant and some small ones had it so remained it would still have been a cut throat quarrel but when the appeared to be concerned when the war ships of the german empire were thought to fetch and carry for the firm the rage of the independent broke beyond restraint and largely from the national and the speech of german i eight years of trouble in clerks this scramble among dollar hunters assumed the appearance of an inter war the firm with the at its head and the at its back	38
there has been the chief enemy of no english reader can fail to be reminded of john company and if the appear to have been not so successful we can only wonder that our own and were less severely punished even on the field of though german faults and make up the of my story they have been alone three nations were engaged in this and not one appears with credit they figure but as the three of the elder the states have the hands and even are not it was an business when a private american adventurer was landed with his pieces of from an american and became prime minister to the king it is true even if he were ever really supported that he was soon dropped and had soon sold himself for money to the german firm i will leave it to the reader whether this trait elements of discord foreign or not the wretched story and the end of it the credit alike of england and the states when this man the of a friendly sovereign was and on the of an american by the captain of an english war ship i shall have to tell as i proceed of villages on very trifling grounds by the like has been done of late years though in a better quarrel by ourselves of england i shall have to tell how the landed and shed blood at it was only in that we british had our own little at i shall have to tell how the with a sudden call for money it was something of the that sir arthur himself under a sensible public made and enforced a somewhat similar demand eight years of trouble in chapter iii sorrows of to you ride in a german plantation and see no bush no soul stirring only acres of empty miles of alley a desert of food in the eyes of the the place has the attraction of a park for the holiday of a for we must add the yet more lively of a haunted house for over these empty and silent miles there the fear of the for the besides there is something and absurd in the idea of thus growing food only to send it from the land and sell it a man at home who should turn all into one and burn his harvest on the altar of might impress ourselves not much otherwise and the firm which does these things is quite a that sorrows of might be to morrow without loss but to itself few natives drawing so much as day s wages and the rest beholding in it only the of their acres the nearest villages have suffered most they see over the hedge the lands of their ancestors waving with useless palms and the were often questionable and must still more often appear so to natives spinning and improving about the evening lamp at the worst then to help from the plantation will seem to a very like orchard breaking to the british at the best it will be thought a gallant robin of a public wrong and there is more behind not only is from the regarded rather as a lark and the idea of in itself is not very clearly present to these and as to the punishment of crime in general a great of opinion the natives from ourselves were short and sharp death by the primitive method of setting the criminal to sea in a and in itself the pen eight years of trouble in of publicly biting a hot ill smelling root to a rough in a children s these are approved the is or punished and forgiven we on the other hand harbour malice for a period of years continuous shame to the criminal even when he is doing his best even when he is to the worst form of torture regular work he is to stand aside from life and from his family in dreadful these ideas most have accepted in appearance as they accept other ideas of the in practice they reduce it to a farce i have heard the french resident in the in talk with the french of eh ou f je mon part visited and the ladies would be welcome this is to take the most savage of take some of the most in labour on the in clothing and ridiculous and it is a common sight to see the family of such an one troop out about the dinner hour with flowers and in their sorrows of holiday best to with their on the public the application of these in fact the sympathy to the remember besides that the system and that imperfect idea of justice which is its worst feature are still lively in that it is held the duty of a judge to favour of a king to protect his and the difficulty of getting a plantation thief first caught then convicted and last of all punished will appear during the early the looked upon this system with growing irritation they might see their thrust in jail by the front door they could never tell how soon he was by the back and they need not be the least surprised if they met him a few days after enjoying the delights of a it was a conspiracy from the king and the vice king downward to the law and deprive the of their profits in accordingly the dr a on the subject in terms of which convicted of against german eight years of trouble in subjects were to be confined in a private jail belonging to the german firm to dr it seemed simple enough the were to be effectually punished the partially to the the thing appeared no less simple but quite different was selling to what else could be expected here was a private engaged in making money to it	38
was upon a question of profit and loss one of the functions of the crown and those who make must look for comments public feeling ran unanimous and high prisoners who escaped from the private jail were not or not returned and hastened to build a new prison of his own whither he conveyed or pretended to convey the in october a state paper issued from the german twenty prisoners the wrote had now been at large for eight months from s prison it was pretended they had since then completed their term of punishment elsewhere dr did not seek to conceal his incredulity but he took sorrows of ground beyond he declared the point the law was to be enforced the men were condemned to a certain period in s prison they had run away they must now be brought back and whatever had become of them in the interval work out the sentence doubtless dr s demands were just but doubtless also they bore from the outside a great appearance of and when the king submitted the murmurs of the people increased but was not yet content the law had to be enforced or at least the property of the firm must be respected and during an absence of the s he seems to have drawn up with his own hand and certainly first showed to the king in his own house a new here and there as an able man he was perhaps in the right to prepare and propose as the head of a trading company he seems far out of his part to be communicating state papers to a sovereign the administration of justice was the colour and i am willing to believe the purpose of the new v r t eight years of trouble in paper but its effect was to the existing government a council of two and two were to be invested with the right to make laws and impose taxes as might be desirable for the common interest of the government and the german the provisions of this council the king and vice king were to sign and by a last hardship the who received all the benefit reserved a right to from the agreement on six months notice the who suffered all the loss were bound by it in i can never believe that my friend dr had a hand in these proposals i am only surprised he should have been a party to them perhaps the chief error in these islands of a man who has made few and they were enforced with a that seems the according to their own account were denied a copy of the document they were certainly and threatened their deliberation was treated as two german war ships lay in port and it was hinted that these would shortly sorrows of succeed in a child and he takes refuge in one of the chiefs had written we know well we are in bondage to the great it was now thought one tyrant might be better than three and any one to germany on the th november accordingly and forty eight high chiefs met in secret and the of was secretly offered to great britain for the second time in history and still figured as king and vice king in the eyes of dr in their own they had secretly were become private persons and might do what they pleased without binding or their country on the morrow accordingly they did public humiliation in the dust before the and five days later signed the the last was done it is claimed upon an impulse the humiliation which it appeared to the so great a thing to offer to the practical mind of dr seemed a trifle to receive and the pressure was continued and increased and were both heavy well eight years of trouble in meaning men educated for the still bears some marks of it in character and appearance was in private of an and sentimental turn but no one would have guessed it from his solemn and dull countenance impossible to conceive two less dashing for a threatened race and there is no doubt they were reduced to the extremity of and childish fear it was drawing towards night on the loth when this pair and a chief of the name of set out for the german still minded to as they went they discussed their case with agitation they could see the lights of the german as they walked an eloquent and it was then that proposed to sign the it will give us peace for the day said and afterwards great britain must decide better fight germany than that cried speaking words of wisdom and departed in anger but the two others proceeded on their fatal errand signed the writing themselves king and vice king as they now believed themselves v sorrows of to be no longer and with childish took part in a scene of reconciliation at the german supposed himself betrayed by states with precision that the document was sold by a for thirty six dollars twelve days later at least november d the text of the address to great britain came into the hands of dr the may have been wrong before they were now in the right to be angry they had been publicly solemnly and the treaty and the reconciliation were both with the broad of children and this history is much from the outside it is the report ot eye witnesses it can be rarely corrected from state papers and as to what felt and thought or what instructions they acted under i must still be silent or proceed by guess it is my guess that now decided to be a man impossible to trust and unworthy to be dealt with and it is certain that the business of his was put in hand at once the position of with eight years of	38
trouble in his knowledge of things native his and his intellect must have always made him influential with the at this juncture he was indispensable here was the deed to be done here the man of action mr rested not says it was like the old days of his own writes his messengers filled the isle his house was thronged with chiefs and he sat close over his loom weaving the future there was one thing requisite to the a native and the very man you would have said stood waiting of descended from both the royal lines late joint king with off with nothing in the time of the treaty probably by the circumstance a chief with a strong following and in character and capacity high above the native average yet when s was done and the curtain rose on the set scene of the was absent and stood in his place was to be for a piece of solemn and offensive and the man selected to replace him sorrows of was his sole partner and in the act for so strange a choice good ground must have existed but it remains some supposing scratched as too independent others that had indeed betrayed and his new advancement was the price of his treachery so these two chiefs began to change places like the scales of a balance one down the other up raised his flag th in chief place of his own province of the style of king and began to collect and arm a force by the admission of was in the market supplying him with weapons so were the americans so but for our british law so would have been the british for wherever there is a sound of battle there will the be gathered together selling arms a little longer and we find visited and addressed as king and majesty by a german meanwhile for the unhappy the road led downward he was refused a he was turned out of the seat of his on a land eight years of trouble in claim of s fled across the and had the coolness german expression to his flag in he was asked in the most polite manner says the same account in the most delicate manner in the world a reader of might be tempted to the phrase to strike his flag in his own capital and on his refusal to to this request dr appeared himself with ten men and an officer from the a sailor climbed into the tree and brought down the flag of which was carefully folded and sent in the most polite manner to its owner the of england and the states were there the excellent gentlemen to protest last and yet more explicit the german who visited and be addressed the king we may surely say the late king as the high chief had he no party then at that it is probable he might have called some of to his standard and yet he sat there helpless monarch like a fowl for the blame lies with self because he was a helpless creature it f sorrows of lies also with england and the states their agents on the spot preached peace where there was no peace and no pretence of it with eloquence and secretary seems to have felt a call to join personally in the solemn farce and was at the expense of a in which he assured the sinking monarch it was for the higher interests of he should do nothing there was no man better at doing that the advice came straight home and was devoutly followed and to be just to the great powers something was done in europe a conference was called it was agreed to send to and the decks had to be hastily cleared against their visit dr had attached the of f and hoisted the german war flag over the american in a sudden access of good service had flown the stars and over colours on either side these steps were solemnly the expressly and the islands fell into a period of suspense of some twelve months duration during which the seat of the history was transferred to other countries v eight years of trouble in and escapes my here on the spot i select three incidents the arrival on the scene of a new actor the visit of the and the riot on the emperor s birthday the rest shall be silence only it must be borne in view that all the while continued to strengthen himself in and sat listening to the song of captain the new actor was a captain of of a romantic and adventurous character he had served with credit in war but soon wearied of garrison life resigned his battery came to the states found employment as a civil engineer visited took a sub contract on the canal caught the fever and came for the sake of the sea voyage to he had that natural love for the which lies so often latent in persons of a northern birth difficulty and danger attracted him and when he was picked out f or duty to be the hand of germany in there is no doubt but he accepted the post with it is doubtful if a sorrows of better choice could have been made he had courage integrity ideas of his own and loved the employment the people and the place yet there was a fly in the the double error of unnecessary and of the of a trading company in political affairs has and in the end defeated much german policy and was introduced to the islands as a clerk and sent down to where he was soon the troops and the position of the rebel king as an agent of the german firm what this cost in the end i shall tell in another place and even in the beginning	38
is one of those triumphs of temper which can only be admired is entertaining the of a sovereign power in treaty with his own king and the captain of a german orders him to quit his guests but there was worse to come i gather that was at the time in the he had doubtless been promised prompt aid and a prompt success he had seen himself helped privately ordered about and publicly and he was still the king of nothing more than his own province and already the second in command of captain with the of some part of his native cabinet and behind the back of his white minister he found means to communicate with the a passage on the a and a home in were the proposed and he seems to have been tempted a day was set for a secret interview poor the secretary and eight years of trouble in j d strong an american painter attached to the in the surprising quality of government artist landed with a boat screw in and while the secretary hid himself according to agreement in the home of an english the artist bent on entered the of the rebel king it was a great day in three hundred had come in a feast was cooking and the in view of the native love of being was made entirely welcome but beneath the friendly surface all were on the alert the secret had out beheld his plans threatened in the root trembled for the possession of his slave and sovereign and the german vice mr had been sent or summoned to the scene of danger it was after dark prayers had been said and the hymns sung through all the village and strong and the sat together on the in the house of when the events began strong speaks german freely a fact which he had not disclosed and he was scarce sorrows of more amused than embarrassed to be able to follow all the evening the and the changing counsels of his neighbours first the king was missing and there was a false alarm that he had escaped and was already with poor next came certain intelligence that some of the had run the and were on their way to the house of the english thereupon in spite of some from who tried to defend the independence of his cabinet gathered a of warriors marched out of the village brought back the and clapped them in the iron which served as jail along with these he seems to have seized to the and poor seeing his conspiracy public burst with his boat s crew into the town made his way to the house of the native prime minister and demanded s release hastened to the spot with strong at his heels and the two being both and strong seriously alarmed for his friend s safety there began among them a scene of great at one point when eight years of trouble in strong suddenly disclosed his acquaintance with german it attained a high style of comedy at another when a pistol was most foolishly drawn it bordered on drama and it may be said to have ended in a mixed when poor was finally packed into the iron jail along with the ministers meanwhile the captain of his boat of whom i shall have to tell again had cleverly withdrawn the boat s crew at an early stage of the quarrel among the population beyond s he collected a body of armed men returned before dawn to the iron jail and the secretary and the of the rebel cabinet no opposition was shown and doubtless the rescue was at by who had gained his point poor had the face to complain the next day to but to with in was labour lost you have been repeatedly warned mr poor not to expose yourself among these savages said he not long after the presence f the was made a by the and sorrows of the rough and tumble withdrew on borrowed money to find their own government in hot water to the neck the s birthday it is possible and it is alleged that the entered into the conference with hope but it is certain they were resolved to remain prepared for either fate and i take the liberty of believing that was not forgiven his that during this interval he stood marked like a tree for and that his conduct was daily for further of offence on the evening of the emperor s birthday march d certain were in a public bar the season and the place considered it is scarce cynical to assume they had been drinking nor so much being granted can it be thought to suppose them possibly in fault for the that took place a i say but i am willing to call it a riot and this was the new fault of this it is that was described by a german as the upon by of the german emperor eight years of trouble in i pass the by to examine the point of four natives were brought to trial for this horrid fact not before a native judge but the german magistrate of the of one was one condemned for and two for assault on appeal not to but the three the case was by a majority of two to one returned to the magistrate and as far as i can learn was then allowed to drop himself laid the chief blame on one of the of the a half white of the name of him he sought to have discharged but was again baffled by his brother where in all this are we to find a corner of responsibility for the king of the alleged author of the outrage was a half white as was to learn to his cost he claimed to be an american subject and he was not even in	38
the king s employment the scene of the outrage was outside the king s by treaty by the choice of germany he was not so much as allowed to fly his flag there and the denial of justice if justice were denied rested with the of britain and the states sorrows of but when a dog is to be beaten any stick will serve in the meanwhile on the proposition of mr the washington conference on affairs was till autumn so that the ministers of germany and great britain might submit the to their respective you propose that the conference is to and not be broken up asked sir west to for the reasons stated replied this was on july th and twenty nine days later by wednesday the th of august germany had practically seized for this breach of faith one excuse is openly alleged another whispered it is openly alleged that had shown himself it is whispered that the was an expression of american and the only did as they were done by the of these excuses may be left to the discretion of the reader but however excused the breach of faith was public and express it must have been deliberately and it was resented in the state as a deliberate insult eight years of trouble in by the middle of august there were five sail of german war ships in bay the of tons the the and the all considerable ships and the beautiful which lies there to this day on her beam scarlet with the day showing through her ribs they waited as a waits till the goes by and on the d when the mail had left for when the eyes of the world were withdrawn and plunged again for a period of weeks into her original island obscurity opened his guns the policy was too cunning to seem dignified it gave to conduct which would otherwise have seemed bold and even straightforward the appearance of a timid and helped to shake men s reliance on the word of germany on the day named an reached at whither he had retired months before to avoid a fine of one thousand dollars and an or public humiliation were demanded for the affair of the emperor s birthday twelve thousand dollars were to be paid quickly for from sorrows of man in the course of the last four years it is my opinion that there is nothing just or correct in while you are at the head of the government concluded i shall be at in the morning of tomorrow wednesday at a m the blow fell on in his own expression out of the bush the fellow had seen things hang over so long he had perhaps begun to suppose they might hang over forever and here was ruin at the door he rode at once to and summoned his chiefs the council lasted all night long many voices were for defiance but had grown to a policy of and the answer ultimately drawn only begged for delay till saturday the th so soon as it was signed the king took horse and fled in the early morning to the council hastily dispersed and only three chiefs and le remained by the government building expectant of the result by seven the letter was received by arrived in person inquired for was answered and declared war on t i t eight years of trouble in the spot before eight the seven hundred men and six guns came ashore and seized and hoisted german colours on the government building the three chiefs had made good haste to escape but a considerable was made of government papers and some seventeen thousand then followed a scene which long in the minds of the white inhabitants when the german the town in search of burst into private houses and were accused i am willing to believe on slender grounds of violence to private persons on the morrow the th one of the german war ships which had been despatched to over night re entered the bay flying the colours at the fore the new king was given a royal salute of twenty one guns marched through the town by the and a german guard of honour and established on with two or three hundred warriors announced his recognition to the other these replied by and in the usual manner advised to do sorrows of ing on the th martial law was declared and on the ist september the german dispersed about the group bearing along with them the of the new king was now a great man to have five iron war ships for his post but the moment was critical the revolution had to be explained the chiefs persuaded to at a summoned for the th and the ships carried not only a store of printed documents but a of upon their round such was the german d they had declared war with a of five ships upon a single man that man late king of the group was in hiding on the mountains and their own backed by german guns and sat in his stead in one of the first acts of on to the bush was to send for twice i am alone in the bush if you do not come quickly you will find me bound it is to be understood the men were near and had if they had nothing else a common jealousy at the urgent cry set forth eight years of trouble in from and came to to what is this that you and the german have decided on doing he inquired i am going to obey the german replied whose wish it is that i should be the king and that all should here do not pursue in wrath against said but try to bring about a compromise and form a united government very well said leave	38
it to me and i will try from went on board the and was graciously received probably said the we shall bring about a reconciliation of all through you and then asked his visitor if he bore any affection to yes said and to to him also and if you desire the of you will allow either him or me to bring about a reconciliation if it were my will said the i would do as you say but i have no will in the matter i have instructions from the and i cannot go back again from what i have been sent to do i thought you would be sorrows of l commended said if you brought about the of i will tell you said the all shall go quietly but there is one thing that must be done must be i will do nothing to him beyond he will only be kept on board for a couple of months and be well treated just as we did to the french chief napoleon iii some time ago whom we kept awhile and cared for well was no less explicit war he told should not cease till the had of and should be recognised meantime in the provinces a profound impression was received people to their fugitive sovereign in the bush many natives in brought their treasures and stored them in the houses of white friends the were sometimes ill received over in they found the village of deserted save for a few lads at these they and were rewarded with applause and the as soon as they had departed was torn down for this offence the village was eight years of trouble in burned by german sailors in a very decent and orderly style on the d september this was the dinner bell of the on the th the threat conveyed in the terms of the summons if any government district does not quickly obey this direction i will make war on that government district was thus commented on and and the meeting was in consequence well attended by chiefs of all parties they found themselves among the armed warriors of and the of the german and under the guns of five strong ships rose it was his first open appearance the german firm its work his words were few and great are my thanks that the chiefs and heads of families of the whole of are assembled here this day it is strictly forbidden that any discussion should take place as to whether it is good or not that is king of whether at this or at any future i place for your signature the following we inform all the people of of what follows i the government of has been assumed by king sorrows of by order of the king it was directed that a should take place to day composed of the chiefs and heads of families and we have obeyed the summons we have signed our names this i th september needs must under all these guns and the paper was signed but not without open the bearing of in particular was long remembered against him by the do you not see the king said the his father was no king was the bold answer a bolder still has been printed but this is s own recollection of the passage on the next day the chiefs were all ordered back to shake hands with again they obeyed but again their attitude was menacing and some it is said audibly murmured as they gave their hands it is time to follow the poor sheet of paper literal meaning of who was now to be blown so over the face of earth as soon as news reached him of the declaration of war he fled from to a hamlet in the bush about a mile and a half eight years of trouble in behind where he some days on the th his secretary despatched to the american an anxious appeal his majesty s cry and prayer in behalf of this weak people by august th the had word of his lurking place surrounded the hamlet under cloud of night and in the early morning burst with a force of sailors on the houses the people fled on all sides and were fired upon one boy was shot in the hand the first blood of the war but the king was nowhere to be found he had wandered further over the mountains the of the land towards and here in a safe place he built himself a town in the forest where he received a continual stream of visitors and messengers day after day the german blue were employed in the hopeless enterprise of beating the forests for the fugitive day after day they were suffered to pass under the guns of day after day they returned exhausted and disappointed to high chief of was known to be in the forest with the king his wife was seized sorrows of imprisoned in the german hospital and when it was thought her spirit was sufficiently reduced brought up for cross examination the wise lady confined herself in answer to a single word is your husband near yes is he far from yes is he with the king yes are he and the king in different places yes whereupon the witness was discharged about the loth of september was secretly in at the american with two companions the german were close set and visited by a strong and on his return his party was observed and hailed and fired on by a they ran away on all in the dark and so doing upon another whom and flung in a ditch for the sheet of paper although of character is like most of an able body the second like the first fired after his at random	38
door which was opened at six in the morning and shut again at six at j w sorrows of l night all day he had his liberty went to the mission and walked about the who were like the sand on the for number at six they were called into the house and shut in for the night without beds or lights although they gave me no light said he with a smile i could see i was in a prison good food was given him tea made with warm water beef etc all excellent once in their walks they a tree bearing m the garden of an english merchant ran back to the prison to get a shilling and came and offered to purchase i am not going to sell to you people said the merchant come and take what you like here interrupted himself to say it was the only tree bearing in the the had none or he would have given it to me on the passage from the to germany he had great delight to see the cliffs of england he saw the rocks shining in the sun and three hours later was surprised to find them sunk in the heavens he saw also and immense buildings perhaps and eight years of trouble in its castle in after breakfast mr who had now finally ceased from troubling came on boards and carried him ashore in a steam to a large house of the government where he stayed till noon at noon told him he was going to the place where ships are that go to and led him to a very magnificent house with carriages inside and a wonderful roof of glass to wit the railway station they were on the train and then went in something with a house drawn by horses which had windows and many decks plainly an here at or i believe they stayed some while in a house of five hundred rooms then were got on board the as they understood for in england on a sunday were joined en route by the famous dr passed through a narrow passage where they went very slow and which was just like a river and beheld with curiosity that red sea of which they had learned so much in their at last at the hour when the fires burn red they came to a place where sorrows of was a german man of war was called with one of the boys on deck when he found a german officer awaiting him and a steam alongside and was told he must now leave his brother and go elsewhere i cannot go like this he cried you must let me see my brother and the other old men a term of courtesy who seems always to have been good natured his orders and consented not only to an interview but to allow to continue to accompany the king so these two were carried to the man of war and sailed many a day still supposing themselves bound for and lo she came to a country the like of which they had never dreamed of and cast anchor in the great of and upon that narrow land the were set on shore this was the part of his on which he looked back with the most bitterness it was the last for one thing and he was worn down with the long suspense and terror and deception he could not bear the water and though the were still good to him and gave him beef and and tea he suffered from the lack of vegetable food eight years of trouble in such is the narrative of this simple exile i have not sought to correct it by testimony it is not so much the facts that are historical as the man s attitude no one could hear this tale as he originally told it in my hearing i none can read it as here and without admiring the and simplicity of the and wondering at the want of heart or want of humour in so many successive that they should have continued to surround this infant with the secrecy of state chapter iv september to august so was on the throne and behind it and i have now to deal with their brief and reign that it was the reign of needs not to be argued the policy is throughout that of aa able over hasty white with eyes and ideas but it should be borne in mind that he had a double task and must first lead his sovereign before he could begin to drive their common subjects meanwhile he himself was exposed if all tales be true to much and interference and to some aid from the and the firm and to one of these the of the i am inclined to attribute his ultimate failure the white enemies of the new were of two classes in the first stood and eight years of trouble in the of the two chief rivals of the firm who saw with jealousy a clerk or a so called clerk of their advanced to the chief power the second class that of the officials numbered at first exactly one the english acting is understood to have held strict orders to help germany commander of the the american captain when he arrived on the th october and for some time after seemed devoted to the german interest and spent his days with a german officer captain von who was beloved by all who knew him there remains the american general marsh a young man of high spirit and a generous disposition he had obeyed the orders of his government with a grudge and looked back on his past action with regret almost to be called repentance from the moment of the declaration of war against we find him standing forth in bold consistent	38
and sometimes rather opposition stirring up his government at home with clear and forcible and on the spot grasping at every opportunity to thrust a stick into the german wheels for some while he and fought their difficult battle in in the course of which first one and then the other paid a visit home to reason with the authorities at washington and during the absence there was found an american clerk in william to perform the duties of the office with remarkable ability and courage the three names just brought together and make the head and front of the opposition if fell if was driven forth if the treaty of was signed theirs is the blame or the credit to understand the feelings of self reproach and bitterness with which took the field the reader must see s letter of farewell to the of england and america it is singular that this far from brilliant or dignified monarch writing in the forest in of spirit and under pressure for time should have left behind him not only one but two remarkable and most effective documents the farewell to his people was l eight years of trouble in touching the farewell to the for a man of the character of must have cut like a whip when the chief and others first moved the present troubles he wrote it was my wish to punish them and put an end to the rebellion but i yielded to the advice of the british and american assistance and protection was repeatedly promised to me and my government if i from bringing war upon my country upon these promises i did not put down the rebellion now i find that war has been made upon me by the emperor of germany and has been proclaimed king of i desire to remind you of the promises so frequently made by your government and trust that you will so far redeem them as to cause the lives and liberties of my chiefs and people to be respected immediate adversary was of course i have formed an opinion of this gentleman largely from his printed which i am at a loss to put in words ingenious capable at moments almost witty with a kind of wit in action he dis played in the course of this affair every description of capacity but that which is alone useful and which springs from a knowledge of men s natures it chanced that one of early moves played into his hands and he was swift to seize and to improve the advantage the territory and the of were to the german and by landing s two or three hundred warriors at as himself owns they had the and entered protest twice there were two ways of escaping this one was to withdraw the warriors the other by some to the and the second had advantages it would restore the taxes of the richest district in the islands to the king and it would enable them to substitute over the royal seat the flag of germany for the new flag of it is true and it was the subject of much remark that these two could hardly be distinguished by the naked eye but their effects were different to seat the king on german land and under german colours so eight years of trouble in that any rebellion was war on germany was a trick apparently invented by and which we shall find was repeated and in till the end martin was at this time magistrate in the the post was held in turn by the three martin had served far beyond his term and should have been succeeded months before by an american to make the change it was necessary to hold a meeting of the board consisting of the three each backed by an and for some time these meetings had been or refused by the german as long as it was agreed to continue martin had attended regularly as soon as indicated a wish for his removal suspended the by refusing to appear this policy was now the more necessary for if the whole existence of the were a check on the freedom of the new government it was plainly less so when the power to enforce and punish lay in german hands for some while back the flag had been flown on the building this i am sorry my information me to suppose he is in error with post loyalty to the past insisted that this flag should be continued and immediately made his point he declared justly enough that the proposal was hostile and argued it was impossible he should attend a meeting under a flag with which his sovereign was at war upon one occasion of he was invited to meet the two other at the british even this he refused and for four months the martin still in office in the month of october in consequence the british and american rate announced they would refuse to pay doubtless rubbed his hands on saturday the loth the chief a man of substance and good character was arrested on a charge of believed to be and cast by martin into the prison he sent to who was his tenant and owed him money at the time for applied to after some search martin was found and refused to consider eight years of trouble in before the monday morning whereupon demanded the keys from the accepted s verbal and set free things were now at a and astonished every one by agreeing to a meeting on the th it seems he knew what to expect writing on the th at least he that the meeting will be held in vain that the must lapse and the government of step in on the th left his in time and walked some part of the way to the place of meeting in company with the english pro but he	38
had forgotten a paper and in an evil hour returned for it alone arrived without him and broke up the meeting for want of a there was some as to whether he had waited ten or twenty minutes whether he had been or informed by that was on the way whether the statement had been made to himself or to in answer to a question and whether he had brother and successor of heard s answer or only s question all if he heard the question he was bound to have waited for the answer if he heard it not he should have put it himself and it was the manifest truth that he rejoiced in his occasion sir he wrote to i have the honour to inform you that to my regret i am obliged to consider the government to be in since you have withdrawn your consent to the of mr martin in his position as magistrate and since you have refused to take part in the meeting of the board agreed to for the purpose of a magistrate the government of the town and district of the rests as long as the is in with the government the government has taken over the administration and has applied to the commander of the imperial german for assistance in the preservation of good order this letter was not delivered until p m by three sailors had been landed already german colours flew over s at and eight years of trouble in german guards had occupied the hospital the german and the jail and where they stood to arms under the flag of the same day wrote to protest receiving no reply he issued on the morrow a bidding all americans look to himself alone on the th he wrote again to and on the th received this genial reply sir your high favour of the th of this month i give myself the honour of acknowledging at the same time i acknowledge the receipt of your high favour of the th october in reply to my communication of the same date which contained the information of the of the arrangements for the government there the correspondence ceased and on the i th january came the last step of this when appointed a judge and the judge proved to be martin thus was the adventure of the castle achieved by sir the the taxes of the jail the police all passed into the hands of a german was secured upon the bench and the german flag might wave over her but there is a law of human nature which should be taught at school and it seems they are not that men can bare injustice but not the combination of injustice and hence the career of the had the been seized by open force there might have been complaint it would not have aroused the same lasting grudge this grudge was an ill gift to bring to who had trouble enough in front of him l y without he was an alien he was supported by the guns of alien war ships and he had come to do an alien s work highly needful for but essentially with all the law to be enforced causes of dispute between white and brown to be taxes to be raised a central power created the country opened up the native race taught industry all these were detestable to the natives and to all of these he must set his hand the more i learn of his brief term of rule the more i learn to admire him and to wish we had his like eight years of trouble in in the face of bitter native opposition he got some roads accomplished he set up the taxes he enforced with necessary vigour by the th of january and districts in having made a difficulty is down at the island in a with the at his heels the chief the districts in three hundred dollars for expenses and orders all to be in by april which if it is not not one thing will be done he proclaimed but war declared against you and the principal chiefs taken to a distant island he forbade of a frequent source of and quarrel and to clear off those already contracted passed a severe but law each individual or family was first to pay off its own obligation that settled the free man was to pay for the indebted village the free village for the indebted province and one island for another he declared should be free of debt within a year had he given it three years and gone more gently i believe it might have been accomplished to make jt the more possible he sought to the natives from buying cotton and to oblige them to dress at least for the time in their own he laid the of a royal army the first was in his hands but it was not so much on that he depended it was his hope to in these men an de corps which should the old local and bonds and found a central or national party in the islands looking far before and with a wisdom beyond that of many merchants he had condemned the single dependence placed on for the national his even as they were taught to plant each his term of active service finished should return to his own land and plant and cultivate a 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 should be spread over the face of the islands received including his household expenses i dollars a year eight years of trouble in all such are but this is not extreme we have seen horses of a different colour since then and the with true offered to increase the salary	38
and i believe if the truth were known the firm would be found to have been disgusted with the of its intended tool and often impatient of the demands of his but i may seem to the degree of white opposition and it is true that before fate overtook the government it appeared to enjoy the fruits of victory in and one the stood out alone to refuse his taxes but the eight years of trouble in victory was in appearance only the opposition was latent it found vent in talk and thus on the natives upon the least excuse it was ready to flame forth again and this is the more singular because some were far from out of sympathy with the native policy pursued when i met captain he was amazed at my attitude whom did you find in to tell you so much good of me he asked i named one of my he t he cried if he thought all that why did he not help me i told him as well as i was able the man was a merchant he beheld in the government of a government created by and for the firm who were his rivals if were minded to deal fairly where was the probability that he would be allowed if insisted and were strong enough to prevail what that as soon as the government were fairly accepted might not be removed here was the attitude of the hour and i am glad to find it clearly set forth in a despatch of june i th when he the law against and goes on whether the author of this law will carry out the good intentions which he whether he will be allowed to do so if he desires against opposition of those who placed him in power and protect him in the possession of it may well be doubted had come to in the firm s livery even while he promised in commerce the clerks were a different story in the and the late high feat of the knight had killed all confidence in at the root by these three the german adventure in was defeated i imply that the handful of were the true obstacle not the thousands of for had the frankly accepted the path of germany was clear and the end of their policy however troublesome might be its course was obvious but this is not to say that the natives were content lu a sense indeed their opposition was continuous there will always be opposition in when taxes are imposed and the of stuck in men s throats refused to act under the new government from io eight years of trouble in the beginning and his place and title as early as february i find him himself the first step on a dangerous path like his and declared himself a private person but he was more rudely dealt with german sailors surrounded his house in the night burst in and dragged the women out of the an offence against manners no was to be found but at last they were shown his fishing lights on the rowed out took him as he was and carried him on board a man where he was detained some while between decks at last january i th after a farewell interview over the ship s side with his wife he was discharged into a and along with two other chiefs and to the the blow struck fear upon all sides le a very able chief was secretly among the his family and followers murmured at his weakness but he continued throughout the duration of the government to serve with trembling a coming to he seized at the pretext for escape and asked leave to accept an engagement in the company i will not allow you to make a monkey of yourself said and the phrase had a success throughout the islands expressions being so much admired by the natives that they cannot refrain from repeating them even when they have been at themselves the assumption of the name spread discontent in that province many chiefs from thence were convicted of and condemned to labour with their hands upon the roads a great shock to the sense of the becoming which was rendered the more sensible by the death of one of the number at his task was involved in the same trouble his speech at a meeting of chiefs was betrayed by the girls that made the and the man of the future was called to on safe conduct but after an interview suffered to return to his the peculiarly tender treatment of must be explained by his relationship to was of blood the hereditary of the would see no eight years of trouble in him even with some complacency but was himself and men would probably have murmured and would perhaps have had he been harshly dealt with the native opposition i say was in a sense continuous and it kept growing the sphere of was limited to and the north central quarters of practically what is shown upon the map in this volume there the taxes were expanded in the out districts men paid their money and saw no return here the eye and hand of the were ready to correct the scales of justice in the out districts all things lay at the mercy of the native and their increased with the course of time and the experience of in the spring of the year a very intelligent observer had occasion to visit many places in the island of our lives are not worth living was the of the popular complaint we are groaning under the oppression of these men we would rather die than continue to endure it on his return to he made haste to communicate his im to replied in an where there has been in a country there must	38
be oppression for a time but unfortunately the terms of the may be reversed and personal would have been more in season than wit the same observer who conveyed to him this warning thinks that if had himself visited the districts and inquired into complaints the blow might yet have been averted and the government saved at last upon a certain act of the discontent took life and fire the act was of his own conception the dull dog was ambitious declares he would not be perhaps his adviser did not seriously try perhaps did not dream that in that of the constitution any one point would be considered sacred i have told how assumed the title oi in august a year after his he took a more formidable step and assumed that of this name as i have said is of peculiar honour it had been given to it had never been taken from the eight years of trouble in those in whose grant it lay stood upon their rights and as the representative of their natural the line was the last who should have had it and there was yet more though i almost despair to make it by certain old are handed down and set huge store by they may be compared to coats of arms or among ourselves and to the horror of more than one half of the head of the began collecting it was felt that the cup was full and men began to prepare secretly for rebellion the history of the month of august is unknown to it passed altogether in the covert of the woods or in the stealthy of one ominous sign was to be noted arms and began to be purchased or inquired about and the more wary ordered fresh of material of war but the rest was silence the government slept in security and was summoned at last from a public dinner to find rebellion the woods behind full of and a plan prepared and in the very article of tion to surprise and seize the discovery averted all and the leaders hastily withdrew towards the south side of the island leaving in the bush a rear guard under a young man of the name of according to some accounts it scarce numbered forty the leader was no great chief but a handsome industrious lad who seems to have been much beloved and upon this obstacle fell it is the man s fault to be too impatient of results his public intention to free of all debt within the year him and instead of continuing to and let his enemies weary and he judged it to strike a blow he struck it with what seemed to be success and the sound of it roused to rebellion about two in the morning of august st was by men marching day came and and his war party were already long disappeared in the woods all morning were still to be seen running with their guns all morning shots were listened for in vain but over the top of the forest far up the mountain smoke was for eight years of trouble in some time observed to hang about ten a dead man was carried in lashed under a pole like a dead pig his for he was a catholic hanging nearly to the ground next came a young fellow wounded sitting in a rope swung from a pole two fellows bearing him two running behind for a relief at last about eleven three or four heavy and a great shouting were heard from the bush town the affair was over the victorious force on the march back was there its victory by the way presently after it marched through five or six hundred strong in tolerable order and with the ludicrous assumption of the triumphant women who had been buying bread ran and gave them at the tail end came himself smoking a cigar deadly pale and with perhaps an increase of his usual nervous manner one spoke to him by the way he expressed his sorrow the action had been forced on him poor people it s all the worse for them he said it ll have to be done another way now and it was supposed by his that he referred to from the german war ships he meant he said to put a stop to head hunting his men had taken two that day he added but he had not suffered them to bring them in and they had been left in thither my rode was attracted by the sound of wailing and saw in a house the two heads washed and and the sister of one of the dead in the island fashion and kissing the cold face soon after a small grave was dug the heads were buried in a beef box and the read the service the body of himself was recovered brought down from the forest and buried behind the same afternoon the men of were ordered to report in where s flag was half for the death of a chief in the is that district of which the bay and the behind and both province and district are strong not one man it is said obeyed the summons night came and the town lay in unusual silence no one abroad the blinds down around the native houses the men within sleeping on their arms eight years of trouble in the old women keeping watch in pairs and in the course of the two following days all was gone into the bush the very setting free his prisoners and joining them in their escape hear the words of the chiefs in the d article of their complaint some of the chiefs fled to the bush from fear of being reported fear of german men of war constantly being accused etc and commanded that they were to be shot on sight this act was carried	38
out by on the st day of august after this we these laws we could not stand them our patience was worn out with the constant wickedness of and we were tired out and could stand no longer the acts of these two men so through an ill timed two severed heads and a dead body the rule of came to a sudden end we shall see him a while longer fighting for existence in a losing battle but his government take it for all in all the most promising that has ever been in these unlucky islands was from that hour a piece of history battle of chapter v the battle of september the revolution had all the character of a popular movement many of the high chiefs were detained in the to the bush under inferior leaders a camp was chosen near threatening well placed for the arrival of and close to a german plantation from which the force could be came all much of and part of s own government and seat both sides were it was a brave day for the though not so brave as some that followed when a single is said to have been sold for twelve cents between nine and ten cents gold yet even among the a strong party feeling reigned and it was the common practice to ask a upon which side he meant to fight eight years of trouble in on september th published a letter to the chiefs of f and in the bush chiefs by authority of his majesty the king of i make known to you all that the german man of war is about to go together with a fleet for the purpose of burning after this island is all burnt tis good if the people return to and live quiet to the people of i say return to your houses and stop there the same to those belonging to if you obey this instruction then you will all be forgiven if you do not obey then all your villages will be burnt like these instructions are made in truth in the sight of god in the heaven the same morning accordingly the out of the bay with a force of warriors and some native boats in tow the fleet in question was the warriors under the conduct of a traitor who paid before many days the of his blood landed and did some damage but were driven away by the sight of a force returning battle of from the no one was hurt for the women and children who alone remained on the island found a refuge in the bush and the and her returned the same evening the letter had been energetic the performance fell below the programme the demonstration annoyed and yet re assured the and it fully disclosed to the a new enemy captain von had been relieved his successor captain was an officer of a different stamp i have nothing to say of him but good he seems to have obeyed the s with secret his were of admirable but his habits were he spoke little english and was far indeed from von s close relations with commander leafy it is believed by that the american officer resented what he took to be neglect i mention this not because i believe it to commander but because it is typical of a prevailing infirmity among in themselves they read all history in the light of personal eight years of trouble in and and i find this weakness indicated by the big thumb of when he places to small an among the causes of the wild career of whatever the cause at least the natives had no sooner taken arms than appeared with violence upon that as early as the d he had sent an obscure but menacing despatch to on the th he fell on in the matter of the the he wrote had an armed force in the field within a few miles of this harbour when the vessels under your command transported the troops to a neighbouring island with the intention of making war on the isolated homes of the women and children of the enemy being the only other representative of a naval power now present in this harbour for the sake of humanity i respectfully and solemnly protest in the name of the united states of america and of the world in general against the use of a national war vessel for such vices as were yesterday rendered by the battle of man s reply to the effect that he is under the orders of the and has no right of choice reads even humble perhaps he was not himself vain of the perhaps not prepared to see it thus described in words om that moment was in the front of the row his name is but it was not required every step of his subsequent action in is writ large over all his a spirit of humour presided no malice was too small for him if it were only funny when night were made from he would sit on his own and confound them with he was at the pains to write a letter and address it to the high chief a device as old at least as the wars of robert in order to bother the officials of the german hands he persisted in leaving although the address was death to them and the distribution of letters in formed no part of their profession his great of the affair must be in its place and he was no less bold than eight years of trouble in the was not supposed to be a match for the there was no glory to be gained m beating her f and yet i have heard naval officers maintain she might have proved a dangerous in narrow waters and at short doubtless thought so he	38
his centre by the simple expedient of it eight years of trouble in was the two and were still held and fortified as i have said to the on a line from the to the little river the centre was represented by the of a boat across the bay from one flank to another and was held we may say by the german war ship decided am assured to make a on induce to in support and then fall upon and carry that and there is no doubt in my mind that such a plan was abroad for nothing but a belief in it could explain the behaviour of on the th that it was seriously entertained by i stoutly the german flag and sailors forbidding the enterprise in so that we may call this false intelligence the beginning and the end of s the who with the revolt were and impatient they will still tell you though the dates are there to show them wrong that even after his delayed extremely a proof of how long battle of two days may seem to last when men anticipate events on the evening of the i ith while the new king was already on the march one of these walked into the moon was bright by the way he observed the native houses dark and silent the men had been about a fortnight in the bush but now the women and children were gone also at which he wondered on the sea beach in the camp of the the solitude was near as great he saw three or four men smoking before the british perhaps a dozen in all the rest were behind in the bush upon their line of about the midst he sat down and here a woman drew near to him the moon shone in her face and he knew her for a near by and a of s she looked about her as she came and asked him trembling what he did in the camp of he was there after news he told her she took him by the hand you must not stay here you will get killed she said the bush is full of our people the others are watching them fighting may begin at any moment and we are both here too eight years of trouble in long so tl ey set off together and she told him by the way that she had come to the hostile camp with a present of so that the men might spare her house by the they met an old man a woman and a child and these also she warned and turned back such is the strange part played by women among the scenes of warfare such were the liberties then permitted to the that these two could pass the lines talk together in s camp on the ve of an engagement and pass forth again bearing intelligence like privileged and before a few hours the white man was in direct communication with the opposing general the next morning he was about breakfast time by two natives who stood leaning against the of a public house where the road strikes in at right angles to the main street of they told him battle was imminent and begged him to pass a little way inland and speak with the road is at this point broad and fairly good running between thick groves of palm and a few hundred yards along this the battle of white man passed a of four armed warriors with red handkerchiefs and their faces in the form of a full beard the a signs for the day a little further on some fifty further still a hundred and at last a quarter of a mile of them sitting by the armed and near by in the of a house on a he found seated in white clothes a across his knees his men he said were still arriving from behind and there was a turning movement in operation beyond the so that the should be assailed at the same moment from the south and east and this is another indication that the attack on was the true attack had any design on been in the wind not even a general would have detached these troops upon the other side while they still spoke five women were brought in with their hands bound they had been stealing our all morning the town was strangely deserted the very children gone a sense of expectation reigned and sympathy for the attack was ex eight years of trouble in pressed publicly some men with faces came to s store for a native woman who was there inquired after the news and hearing that the battle was now near at hand give them two more said she and don t put them down to my husband he would growl put them down to me between twelve and one two white men walked toward finding as they went no sign of war until they had passed the and come to the comer of a by path leading to the bush here were four blackened warriors on guard the extreme left wing of the force where it touched the waters of the bay thence the line which the white men followed stretched inland among bush and marsh facing the of the the warriors lay as yet behind trees but all the young boys and of toiled in the front upon a digging with knives and shells and a continuous stream of children brought them water the young worked crouching from the outside only an occasional head or a hand a shell of battle of earth was visible and their enemies looked on from the line of the opposing the lists were not yet prepared the not yet open and the attacking force was suffered to throw up works under the silent guns of the defence but there is	38
an end even to the delay of as the white men stood and looked the line thundered into a it was answered the crowd of silent workers broke forth in laughter and cheers and the battle had begun all day and most of the next night followed and pounds of lead and pounds sterling of money continued to be blown into the air without and almost without result colonel de an old soldier described the noise as the harbour was all struck with shots a man was knocked over on the german war ship half was under fire and a house was pierced beyond the all along the two lines of the enemies exchanged this hail of balls and away on the east of the battle the was maintained with equal spirit across the narrow eight years of trouble in barrier of the the whole rear of the was by this flank fire and i have seen a house there by the river brink that was with bullets like a piece of worm eaten wreck wood at this point of the field a trait of warfare worth brother to already mentioned shot a man he saw him fall and with the lust of glory passed the river single handed in that storm of to secure the head on the further bank as was but natural he fell himself he who had gone to take a remained to afford one and the who had looked on in the prospect of a triumph saw themselves exposed instead to a disgrace then rose one passed the deadly water swung the body of on his back and returned to his own side the head saved the corpse filled with useless bullets at this rate of practice the soon began to run low and from an early hour of the afternoon the stores were visited by customers in search of more an elderly man came leaping and cheering his gun in one battle of hand a basket of three heads in the other a fellow came shot through the it doesn t hurt now he said as he bought his but it will hurt to morrow and i want to fight while i can a third followed a mere boy with the end of his nose shot off have you any give it me quick so that i can get back to fight on either side there was the same delight in sound and smoke and cheering the same of battle and the proceeded with a din and was illustrated with traits of bravery that would have fitted a or a i have said how little i regard the alleged plan of battle at least it was now all gone to water the whole forces of had out man by man village by village on the so called false attack they were all for their lives on the front and the left flank of about half past three they enveloped the right flank also the were driven back along the beach road as far as the pilot station at the turn of the land from this also they were eight years of trouble in fighting one it is told retreated to his middle in the stood there and firing till he fell and his body was found on the morrow pierced with four mortal wounds the force was now enveloped on three sides it was besides almost cut off from the sea and across its whole rear and only way of retreat a fire of hostile bullets crossed from east and west in the midst of which men were surprised to observe the birds continuing to sing and a cow all afternoon doubtless here was the defence in a poor way but then the attack was in irons for the about the pilot house could scarcely advance beyond without coming under the fire of their own men from the other side of the and there was not enough perhaps not enough authority to divert or to arrest that fire the progress of the fight along the beach road was visible from and despatched ten boats of they crossed the harbour paused for awhile beside the it was supposed for and drew near the shore the v battle of men lay close among the bushes expecting their arrival when a silly lad in mere lightness of heart fired a shot in the air v iy native friend mrs mary ran out of her house and gave the a good shaking an episode in the midst of battle as as the cow but his comrades followed his example a harmless warned the boats what they might expect and they drew back and passed outside the for the passage of the here they came under the fire of the right wing of the on the river bank the beach east and west appeared to them no place to land on and they hung off in the deep water of the inside the barrier feebly the pilot house between four and five the regiment or folk of that village on the left which had been under arms all day fell to be withdrawn for rest and food the regiment which should have relieved it was not ready or not in time and the gallantly by the recovered the most of the ground in eight years of trouble m their proper right it was not for long they lost it again yard by yard and from house to house till the pilot station was once more in the hands of the this is the last definite incident in the battle the along the line of the remain concealed from us under the cover of the forest some part of the position there appears to have been carried but what part or at what hour or whether the advantage was maintained i have never learned night and rain but not silence closed upon the field the were deep in	38
mud but the younger folk wrecked the houses in the neighbourhood carried the roofs to the front and lay under them men and women together through a long night of furious and furious and useless meanwhile the older folk back into in the rain they talked as they went of who had fallen and what heads had been taken upon either side they seemed to know by name the losses upon both and with wet and broken with excitement and fatigue they crawled into the of the town to battle of eat and sleep the morrow broke grey and but as so often happens in the islands cleared up into a glorious day during the night the majority of the had taken advantage of the rain and darkness and stolen from their unobserved the sign of the had been a white handkerchief with the dawn the de from the english beheld the ground strewn with these discarded and close by the house a was still changing white for red was lost was confined to and by nine o clock two villages the streets of taking possession the cost of this respectable success in must have been enormous in life it was but small some forty killed on either side others forty on both three or four being women and one a white man master of a from nor was the number even of the wounded at all to the surprising din and fury of the affair while it lasted eight years of trouble in chapter vi last exploits of september november had held all day by expecting the reported real attack he woke on the th to find himself cut off on that and the villagers the same day received a letter from him to withdraw his party from the and as if in answer drew in his ship into the small harbour close to and trained his port battery to assist in the defence from a step so decisive it might be thought the german plans were unaffected by the disastrous issue of the battle i conceive nothing would be farther from the truth here was on with his troops from which alone these could be in the last exploits of hands of the enemy a battle imminent in which the german vessel must apparently take part with men and battery and the buildings of the german firm were apparently destined to be the first of fire unless re established that which he had so lately and so thrown down the territory the firm would have to suffer if he re established it must retire from if saved his goose he lost his nothing so well the man s as that he should have conceived the design of saving both of re establishing only so much of the territory as should and leaving in all that could by drawing the boundary where he now proposed across the he protected the firm drove back the out of almost all that they had conquered and so far from disturbing actually fortified him in his old position the real story of the that followed we shall perhaps never learn but so much is plain that while was thus outwardly straining decency in the interest of eight years of trouble in he was privately or pretending to with in his despatch of the he had given an extended criticism of that whom he as very dark and artful and while admitting that his assumption of the name of might raise him up followers predicted that he could not make an orderly government or support himself long in the sole power without very energetic foreign help of what help was the thinking there was no in the field but germany on the i he had an interview with the victor told him that s was the only government recognised by germany and that he must continue to recognise it till he received other instructions from his government whom he was now of the late events refused accordingly to withdraw the guard from the and desired until the arrival of these fresh instructions to refrain from an attack on one thing of two either this language is extremely or was preparing to change sides the same appears in his despatch of october th he the losses of the last exploits of german firm with an easy cheerfulness if get up again die st e hung der s y will have to pay if not then this is not the language of a the tone of indifference the easy that the case of was already desperate the hopes held secretly forth to and secretly reported to his government at home contrast with his external conduct at this very time he was feeding he had german sailors mounting guard on s the german war ship lay close in whether to help or to destroy if he meant to drop the cause of he had him in a comer helpless and could him without a sob if he meant to rat it was to be with every condition of safety and every circumstance of was it conceivable then that he meant it speaking with a gentleman who was in the confidence of dr was it not a pity i asked that did not stick to s policy of supporting you are quite wrong there that was not s eight years of trouble in doing was the reply had changed his mind before came why then had he changed it this excellent if idea once entertained why was it let drop it is to be remembered there was another german in the field who had a respect or rather perhaps an affection for and who thought his own honour and that of his country engaged in the support of that government which they had provoked and founded described the captain to as a quiet sensible gentleman if any word came to his ears of	38
the intended would certainly show himself very sensible of the but might have been tempted to withdraw his former epithet of quiet some such passage some such threatened change of front at the opposed with would explain what seems otherwise inexplicable the bitter indignant almost hostile tone of a subsequent letter from to s letter calls it the cause of the german landing and reverse at but whether the advances of were last exploits of sincere or not whether he meditated treachery against the old king or was treachery upon the new and the choice is between one or other no doubt but he contrived to gain his points with prevailing on him to change his camp for the better protection of the german and persuading him long before he could persuade his brother to accept that miraculous new territory of his with a piece cut out for the immediate needs of during the rest of september continued to decline on the th one village and half of another deserted him on the d two more on the st the burned his town of his own splendid house flaming with the rest and there are few things of which a native thinks more or has more reason to think well than of a fine house women and children were marched up the same day from and handed over with their sleeping to a most unwelcome addition to a party already suffering from want by the th they were being watered from the eight years of trouble in on the th the fleet of sixteen large boats fortified and rendered with tons of passed to to supplies from by the th the hungry garrison in great numbers to draw at the german firm on the th the same business was repeated with a different issue s crowded to look on words were exchanged blows followed sticks stones and bottles were caught up the detested at great risk threw himself between the lines and with the his only personal appearance in the wars if this could be called war the same afternoon the boats got in with provisions having passed to of the fleet and from that day on whether from a high degree of enterprise on the one side or a great lack of capacity on the other supplies were maintained from the sea with regularity thus the spectacle of battle or at least of riot at the doors of the german firm was not repeated but the memory must have hung heavy on the hearts not of the only but of all the are a gentle last exploits of than any in europe we are often enough reminded of the circumstance not always by their friends but a mob is a mob and a drunken mob is a drunken mob and a drunken mob with weapons in its hands is a drunken mob with weapons in its hands all the world over which some of us upon these islands might do worse than get by but which must have been evident enough to and i am amazed by the man s constancy that even while blows were going at the door of that german firm which he was in to protect he should have stuck to his demands ten days before had offered to recognise the old territory including and had refused and still in the midst of these and excursions he continued to refuse it on october d in bay h b m s y captain carrying the flag of rear admiral and the lieutenant commander it was the admiral had come to recognise the government of i believe in error and at least the day for that was quite gone eight years of trouble in by and he arrived not to salute the king s accession but to on his remains a conference of the and met on board the october th alone being absent although twice invited the affair touched politics his was to be there and even if he came to the meeting so he explained to he would have no voice in its the parties were plainly marked out and maintaining their offer of the old territory and probably willing to or to contract it to any conceivable extent so long as was still included offering if the others liked to include the whole eastern end of the island but quite fixed upon the one point that should be left out the english willing to meet either view and singly desirous that should be the conclusion was held a card in the consent of and stood alone spoke with an ill grace and could not long hold out had his way and the boundary was chosen just where he desired across the the firm within last exploits of without he did not long enjoy the fruits of victory on the th three days after the meeting one of the well known and intelligent half came to with a complaint the house stood on the hither side of the just inside the newly accepted territory and within easy range of the firm armed men to the number of a hundred had issued from had taken charge of the house had pointed a gun at s head and had twice threatened to kill his pigs i hear elsewhere of some effects removed at the best a very pale though we shall find the word employed declare besides that was no american subject they declare the point had been decided by court martial in that had the decision in the and that this was his reason for handing the affair to it is not necessary to suppose so it is plain he thought little of the business thought indeed nothing of it except in so far as armed men had entered the territory from and it was on eight years of trouble in this ground alone and the implied breach of s engagement	38
at the conference that he invited s attention to the tale the ingenuity of the commander perceived in it huge possibilities of mischief he took up the outrage the of the threatened pigs and with that poor instrument i am sure to his own wonder drove out of it was an to be sure it was but who was to be complaining of on the th laid before the following as the natives at appear to be under the protection of the imperial german naval guard belonging to the vessel under your command i have the honour to request you to inform me whether or not they are under such protection relations pursued the relations exist between the government of the united states and his imperial german majesty s government but we do not recognise s government and i am desirous of the responsibility for of american rights and lost no time in explanation last exploits of or denial but went straight to the root of the matter and sought to buy off declares that every was offered takes a pride to the and the situations he refused and the long in which he was tempted and plied with drink by or of the firm no doubt in short that he was offered in reason and out of reason and being thoroughly refused it all meantime some answer mu t be made to and repeated on the th his oft repeated assurances that he was not to deal with politics the same day retorted the question is not one of nor of politics it is strictly one of military and responsibility under the shadow of the german fort at continued the commander have been committed and i again have the honour respectfully to request to be informed whether or not the armed natives at are under the protection of the imperial german naval guard belonging to the vessel under your command to this no answer was vouchsafed eight years of trouble in till the and then in the old terms and meanwhile on the loth got into his the sure sign as was both said and sung aboard his vessel of some desperate or some amusing service and was set ashore at the house of this he took possession at the head of an old woman and a and was seen from the directing operations and plainly preparing to himself there in a military posture so much he meant to be understood so much he meant to carry out and an armed party from the was to have on the morrow the scene of the but there is no doubt he managed to convey more no doubt he was a master in the art of loose speaking and could always manage to be overheard when he wanted and by this or some other equally means he spread the rumour that on the morrow he was to the proposed post from its position and from s well established character as an artist in mischief must have been regarded by the with uneasiness in the we can scarce suppose them to have be l exploits of but must have both believed and trembled the of the european powers was still unbroken no native would then have dreamed of these colossal ships worked by mysterious powers and laden with instruments of death none would have dreamed of resisting those strange but quite great powers understood with difficulty to be larger than and put together and known to be of prints knives hard picture books and other luxuries as well as of men and inconsistent orders had fallen in ill blood with one of them his only idea of defence had been to throw himself in the arms of another his name his rank and his great following had not been able to preserve him and he had vanished from the eyes of men as the thinks of t beyond the sky had followed him in that new path of doom we have seen how carefully still walked how he dared not set foot on the territory till assured it was no longer sacred how he withdrew from it again as soon as its had been eight years of trouble in restored and at the bare word of a however gilded with promises paused in his course of victory and left his rival in and now it was the rival s turn hitherto happy in the continued support of one of the white powers he now found himself or thought himself threatened with war by no less than two others boats as they passed were in the habit of firing on the shore as like as not without particular aim and more in high spirits than hostility one of these shots pierced the house of a british subject near the the reported to admiral and on the morning of the loth the admiral despatched captain of the to met the messenger with excuses and engagements for the future he was told his explanations were satisfactory so far as they went but that the admiral s message was to the de king not very well assured of his s courage attempted in vain to excuse him from appearing no de king no message he was told produce your de king and had at last last exploits of to be produced to him delivered his errand that n was to remain for the protection of british subjects that a was to be stationed at the that on any farther firing from boats the was to the and she to fire one gun on which all boats must lower sail and come alongside for examination and the detection of the guilty and that in the event of the boats not obeying the gun the admiral would not be responsible for the consequences it was listened to by and with the greatest attention when it was done desired his thanks to	38
and last exploits of returned with it singing as they went on s wharf a light showed them a crowd of german clustered and a hail was heard stop the singing so that we may hear what is said said one of the chiefs in the the song ceased the hail was heard again au mai le bring the gun and the natives report themselves to have replied in the affirmative and declare they had begun to back the boat it is perhaps not needful to believe them a at least was fired from the wharf at about fifty yards range and with a very ill direction one bullet whistling over s head on board the the natives jumped overboard and swimming under the lee of the where they escaped a second dragged her towards the east as soon as they were out of range and past the the german border they got on board and again singing though perhaps a different song continued their return along the english and american shore off they were hailed from the by one of the s boats which had been suddenly despatched on the sound of the firing or had stood ready all eight years of trouble in evening to secure the gun the hail was in german the knew not what it meant but took the precaution to jump overboard and swim for land two and some dropping shot were poured upon them in the water but they scattered and came to land in different quarters of the fired the highway a british house was again pierced by numerous bullets and these sudden sounds of war scattered consternation through the town two british subjects a and a land the first being in particular a man well in the native mind and language hastened at once to their assured him the as would be roused to fury by this in the that the german quarter would be certainly attacked and the rest of the t wn and white inhabitants exposed to a peril very difficult of estimation and prevailed upon him to them with a mission to the king by the time they reached the warriors were already taking post round and the agitation of himself was betrayed last exploits of in the fact that he spoke with the standing and gun in hand a breach of dignity perhaps the usual result however followed the persuaded the and the attack was to the benefit of all concerned and not least of to the benefit of all i say for i do not think the were that evening in a posture to resist the liquor of the firm must thus have fallen into the power of the and i will repeat my that a mob is a mob a drunken mob is a drunken mob and a drunken mob with weapons in its hands is a drunken mob with weapons in its hands all the world over in the opinion of some then the town had narrowly escaped destruction or at least the miseries of a drunken sack to the knowledge of all the air of the territory had once more whistled with bullets and it was clear the incident must have consequences and both protested to announced he should report the affair to his government as a gross of the principles of law and as a breach eight years of trouble in of the i positively decline the protest replied and cannot fail to express my astonishment at the tone of your last letter this was it may be said however that was already out of court that after the night and the incident and so many other acts of practical if humorous hostility his position as a was no better than a doubtful jest the case with was entirely different and with was less well inspired in his first note he was on the old guard announced that he had acted on the of his who was alone responsible on the legal side and declined accordingly to discuss whether the lives of british subjects were in danger and to what extent armed was necessary replied that he had nothing to do with political matters being only responsible for the safety of her majesty s ship under his command and for the lives and property of british subjects that he had considered his protest a purely naval one and as the matter stood could only report the case to the admiral on the station i have the last exploits of honour replied to refuse to entertain the protest concerning the safety of her majesty s ship as being a naval matter the safety of her majesty s ship was never in the least this was by the fire of a few shots under the direction of two officers this offensive note in view of s careful and honest bearing among so many other may be attributed to some misunderstanding his small knowledge of english perhaps failed him but i cannot pass it by without remarking how far too much it is the custom of german officials to fall into this style it may be witty i am sure it is not wise it may be sometimes necessary to offend for a definite object it can never be to offend was more explicit although scarce less and his defence may be divided into two statements first that the was proceeding to land with a hostile purpose on second that the shots complained of were fired by the the second may be dismissed with a laugh human nature has eight years of trouble in laws and no men hitherto discovered on being suddenly from the sea would have turned their backs upon the and poured on the friendly shore the first is not extremely but merits examination the story of the recovered gun seems straightforward it is supported by much testimony the operations on the to have been watched from shore	38
with curiosity it is hard to suppose that it does not roughly represent the fact and yet if any part of it be true the whole of s explanation falls to the ground a boat which had skirted the whole eastern coast of and was already opposite a wharf in and still going west might have been guilty on a thousand points there was one on which she was necessarily innocent she was necessarily innocent of proceeding on or suppose the operations and the native testimony and s of the boat s course and the boat itself to be all stages of some or steps in a conspiracy suppose even a second to have entered bay after nightfall and to have been fired upon from last exploits of wharf in the full career of against suppose all this and is not helped at the time of the first fire the boat was off wharf at the time of the second and that is the one complained of she was off s wharf in was she still proceeding on i not the danger to german property was no longer imminent the shots had been fired upon a very trifling provocation the spirit implied was that of designed disregard to the such was the impression here on the spot such in plain terms the statement of count to lord at home that the of was only to prevent the natives from fighting not the and that whatever might have promised at the conference he could not german war vessels in their freedom of action there was nothing to surprise in this discovery and had events been guided at the same time with a steady and discreet hand it might have passed with less observation but the policy of was felt to be not only eight years of trouble in reckless it was felt to be absurd also sudden upon native boats could lead it was felt to no good end whether of peace or war they could but they might prove in a moment and when least expected to those who knew how nearly it had come to fighting and who considered the probable result the future looked ominous and fear was mingled with annoyance in the minds of the saxon colony on the th a public meeting appealed to the british and american at half past seven in the evening guards were landed at the on the morrow they were each fortified with sand bags and the subjects informed by that these stood open to them on any alarm and at any of the day or night the social bond in was dissolved the like of old dwelt each in his armed the rank and file of the white dared each other and sometimes fell to on the street like rival and the little town not by any fault of the inhabitants rather by the act of had fallen back in about a thousand years last exploits of there falls one more incident to be and then i can close with this chapter i have mentioned the name of the new english it is already familiar to english readers for the gentleman who was fated to undergo some strange experiences in was the same de who covered s flank at the time of the disaster in the desert and bade farewell to in before the the colonel was abrupt and mrs de was too exclusive for a society like that of but whatever their superficial it is strange they should have left in such an of a place where they set so shining an example of the sterling virtues the colonel was perhaps no he was certainly no lawyer but he discharged the duties of his office with the constancy and courage of an old soldier and these were found sufficient he and his wife had no ambition to be the leaders of society the was in their time no house of but they made of it that house of mourning to which the preacher tells us it is better we should go at an early date eight years of trouble in after the battle of it was opened as a hospital for the wounded the english and americans what was required for its support of the strained every nerve to help and set up tents on the lawn to be a shelter for the the doctors of the english and american ships and in particular dr of the showed themselves but it was on the de that the distress fell for nearly half a year their lawn their sometimes their rooms were with the sick and dying their ears were filled with the complaints of suffering humanity their time was too short for the of pitiful duties in mrs de and her miss the merit of this endurance was perhaps to be looked for in a man of the temper himself painfully suffering it was viewed with more surprise if with no more admiration doubtless all had their reward in a sense of duty done doubtless also as the days passed in the spectacle of many traits of gratitude and patience and in the success that waited on their efforts out of a hundred cases treated only last exploits of five died they were all well behaved though full of childish one old gentleman a high chief was seized with alarming symptoms of whenever mrs de went her rounds at night he was after brandy others were for or a chief woman had her foot under let me see my foot why does it not hurt she cried it hurt so badly before i went to sleep whose name has been already mentioned had his lay the longest of any perhaps behaved the worst and was on all these grounds the favourite at times he was furiously irritable and would rail upon his family and rise in bed until he with pain once on the balcony he	38
his adversary held his ground by this time the of the was americans supplied with english and americans openly together and sent boat loads of provisions to his camp one such boat started from on a day of rain it was pulled by six oars three being paid by three by the himself and a clerk of the were in charge and the load included not only beef and but three or four thousand rounds of they came ashore in and carried the gift to while they were yet in his house a bullet passed overhead and out of his door they could see the on the opposite hill thence they made their way to the left flank of the position next the sea a was visible across the stream it rained but the warriors crowded in their in the the mud and maintained an excited conversation balls flew either both happy as lords for the other in chance shots and missing one point is characteristic of that war in native feeling doubt if it will the next the two white visitors passed without and between the lines to a rocky point upon the beach the person of was well known the purpose of their coming to must have been already abroad yet they were not fired upon from the point they a crow s nest or hanging higher up and judging it was a good position for a general view obtained a guide he led them up a steep side of the mountain where they must climb by roots and of grass and coming to an open with some scattered trees bade them wait let him draw the fire and then be swift to follow perhaps a dozen balls whistled about him ere he had crossed the dangerous passage and dropped on the further side into the crow s nest the white men briskly following escaped the crow s nest was built like a on the front of the position across i o eight years of trouble in the perhaps at five hundred yards heads were to be seen up and down in a fort of s on both sides the same enthusiasm without council the same senseless vigilance reigned some took aim some blazed before them at a venture now when a head showed on the other side one would take a crack at it remarking it would never do to miss a chance now they would all fire a and bob down a return rang across the and was answered harmless as lawn the in vain the warriors drunken with noise made answer by a fresh general discharge and bade their visitors run while it was time upon their return to men were covering the front with sheets of coral two balls having passed through the house in the interval sat within over his bowl unmoved the picture is of a piece throughout excellent courage folly a war of school children expensive guns and used like or wheels on s day on the th changed his attack the i i s front was seemingly something must be tried upon his rear there was his bread basket a small success in that direction would immediately his resources and it might be possible with energy to roll up his line along the beach and take the in reverse the scheme was carried out as might be expected from these childish soldiers always uneasy about clung with a portion of his force to and thus had the foe been exposed himself to disaster the expedition fell successfully enough on and drove out the with a loss of four heads but so far from improving the advantage yielded immediately to the weakness of the warrior and ranged further east through bursting with shouts and blackened faces into villages terrified or admiring making spoil of pigs burning houses and destroying gardens the had at first several beach towns in succession and were still in retreat on finding themselves they them one after another and re established their lines eight years of trouble in to the very borders of night fell had taken had lost it and that was all but the day came near to have a different and very singular issue the village was not long in the hands of the when a flying german colours put into the bay and was immediately surrounded by their boats it chanced that was on board word of it had gone abroad and the boats as they approached demanded him with threats the late alone entirely and a prey to natural and painful feelings concealed himself below the of the remained on deck pointed to the german colours and defied approaching boats again the of a great power the fell back before the the worked out of the bay escaped he himself apprehended the worst if he fell into hands it is my impression that his life would have been safe on the d a new german the of tragic memory came to from the where she had been the lent islands the rest of that day and all night she loaded stores from the firm and on the morrow reached bay thanks to the of the the most of the was still in the hands of the and they were thus able to receive from the both the stores and weapons the weapons had been sold long since to and pleasant island places unheard of by the general reader where obscure inhabitants paid for these instruments of death in money or in labour them as it was known they would be and had been by force the had brought back the guns to a german counter whence many must have been originally sold and was here engaged like a in their distribution to fresh such is the vicious circle of the traffic in weapons of war another aid of a more nature was by the to in the shape of german	38
who were engaged and the butcher s bill was counted extraordinary by on december st the women of either side collected the bodies of the dead each easily identified by the name on his is thought to have lost sixty killed and the de hospital received three women and forty men the on the side cannot be accepted but they were much less eight years of trouble in chapter viii affairs of and december for i have not been able to conceal my for he seems to me both false and foolish but of his successor the unfortunately famous dr we may think as of a good enough fellow driven fond of and the he thought to bring peace and enjoy popularity among the of a genial amiable and sanguine temper he made no doubt but he could repair the breach with the english hope told a flattering tale he awoke to find himself exchanging with de beaten in the field by surrounded on the spot by general and from home by his own government the history of his administration leaves on the mind of the student a sentiment of pity scarcely mingled affairs of and on he did not call and in view of s attitude may be excused but the english was in a different england weary of the name of and desirous only to see peace established was prepared to wink hard during the process and to welcome the result of any german settlement it was an fault in to have kicked and his ready made into a state of jealousy anger and suspicion set himself at once to these impressions and the english officials rejoiced for the moment in the change between and de there seems to have been mutual sympathy and in considering the steps by which they were led at last into an attitude of mutual defiance it must be remembered that both the men were sick from time to time with that formidable complaint new guinea fever and de throughout his whole stay in the islands continually was still to be recognised and if possible supported such was the german policy two days after his arrival accordingly eight years of trouble in addressed to a threatening despatch the german plantation was suffering from the of his war party he must withdraw from at once and he went he must approach no german property nor so much as any village where there was a german by five o clock on the morrow if he were not gone would turn upon him the attention of the man and inflict a fine the same evening november th went on board the which began to get up steam three months before such direct on the part of germany would have passed almost without protest but the hour was now gone by s conduct equally timid and rash equally and offensive had forced the other nations into a strong feeling of common interest with even had the german demands been moderate de could not have forgotten the night of the nor how had at his request the attack upon the german quarter with his driver of a captain at his elbow was not likely to behind and affairs of and having communicated s letter the example of the was on all hands exactly followed the hastened on board their respective war ships and these began to get up steam about midnight in a pouring rain communicated to his intention to follow him and protect british interests and replied that he would come on board the and see de personally it was deep in the small hours and de had been long asleep when he was to receive his but he started up with an old soldier s readiness the conference was long de protested as he did afterwards in writing s claim the were in a state of war they had rights it was monstrous to prevent them from entering one of their own villages because a german kept the store and in case property suffered a claim for compensation was the proper remedy argued that this was a question between and in which de had nothing to see and that he must protect german property according to his instructions to which de eight years of trouble in replied that he was in the same attitude to the property of the british that he understood to be intending against that was to the that its crops were accordingly british property and that while he was ever willing to recognise the rights of the he must prevent that property from being by any other nation but if a german man of war does it asked we shall prevent it to the best of our ability replied the colonel it is to the credit of both men that this trying interview should have been conducted and concluded without heat but must have returned to the with darker at sunrise on the morning of the th the three ships each loaded with its put to sea it is hard to the peril of the that followed as they lay off nobody desired a collision save perhaps the reckless but peace and war trembled in the balance and when the at one period lowered her gun ports war appeared to it proved however to be a last affairs of and and therefore surely an unwise extremity contented himself with visiting the rival kings and the three ships returned to before noon beyond a doubt coming after s decisive letter of the day before this impotent conclusion shook the credit of germany among the natives of both sides the fearing they were deserted the with secret delight hoping they were feared and it gave an to that ridiculous business which might have earned for the whole episode the name of the war of flags british and american flags had been planted the night before and were seen that morning	38

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