The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-12-06

| NllIaGC OF Leone, WIFI IT'S brown roofs, green
bread fruit trees. and black. volcanic beach.
| To see and lose again. 1t is but glimpse and
| away: II tossing cutter receives the mai! and
| a few passengers: tho screw. which has
scarce rested. turns again: Samoa sinks in
the blue ocean. and the globe trottcr returns
| to lose his money in tho smoking room or doze
over n novel on deck.
On tho morning Of Tuesday. March .. the
Union Company's steamship Walnut drew
near the place OF cali: sighted West Cape and
Leone: and. instead of bearing medintely to
sea, held on along the southern coast. steamed
| a while by black broken cliffs. by coconnut
groves. BY frequent villages by flats OF lava
diversified with spoutinE blow holes. the sey-
sers OF the beach: and at last. where the high
lands begin to descend abruptly to the SEQ,
turned to tho north. entered between two
wooded mountains. and was swallowed in the
bowels OF tho island. Halt an hour later she
issued forth again. and trimmed her course
for Tonga and New Zealand Her errand was
done: she had set on shore In the deep harbOr
OF PanSopanGo quantity OF stores and bag
gage. n reliable Chinese cook. a land surveyor.
the American Consul General. known among
natives as tho American Judge. and an elderly
gentleman OF notable tenuity Of person called
This own name being unpronounceable by
Polyncsians, tho Writer OF Tales-1'usitnia.
lulS Is inc same WHO Is now CTyl0S,
about o'clock OF sunny morning. and di-
verted by the chirruping of muny birds. to
string together his unmportant information
for the readers benefit.
The harbor Of PangopanGo written in Sa-
moan spelling Pagopago) cuts nearly through
tho narrow. steep and crooked isle. single
ridge divides 1t from the other shore and the
bay OF Fangasa. A road. which Is good road
lor samoa. put de:enerates at last into
LADDER OF roofs ana rocks carries you through
the midst OF forests TO tho top: twenty leet IN
front the Opposite decnVty plunGes sheer. IL
seems you might roll boulder on the roof OF
the unseen village at your feet, and through
clouds OF ioiiaee me sun SHINES upon blue
water rock and icapinG spray.
mo basin. some hall milo IN width. lies 80
encased with mountains that the breeze Is
frequently smut out drauGht enters by the
sea mouth sduaiis Dursti III tifnes ny the gull
lies of the mountain. but tho main river OF the
Trade scorns that crater-like depression and
streams overhead. DAY ana nieM the scroll OF
trade wlnd CLOUD Is uhroiied across tho SKY.
now IN hugc continents now IN thin drift OF
depris' singular SHAPES OF Things protfnctea
anu uelormed' beasts anu trees. ana heads ami
totsos OF Old marbles. hurried ut high speed
from mn 10 hl'i' ana chnnGlnG' lainting. ana
vanishing as thoS ny. M"ahwhne the surface
" '"o n'tnor 'es oe'o" "nI"'iieu. now Oh u
heavenly Dlu'' no" green iike Il forest pool.
nrisNt III the snn'iow.. oark IN mo mldst win
the rehecton s''os OF Woody mountains. AT
tunes n'cAer o, si''er t".hK'es ana olsap-
penrs on the so'hore ground anu you might
tnlhk w'nu was 'rouDlh. mo DARK wafer
nu' INC i''cNer''s 10 '''a' VI "shos'
Right In tho Winds eye mountain stands
conspicuous. designed like nm old fort. with
naked cilfy sides and groom head. Its bulk
divides tho dawn: you would say that two suns
were rising. onote the south. ono to the north OF
that pale mountain; and after tho night is be-
ginning. and colors and shapes at the sea levc
are already confounded In tho grayness OF the
dusk. Pioa (which Is the mountains name) re-
tains for some time tinse OF rose. 1t Is
strange to ply below In the dark harbor under
midnight stars. to have forgot the day. to look
up suddenly In tho east and find that phantom
glow still lingering. The so-called hurricane
that made Samoa famous and DESTROYED the
coasts OF Opou with the bodies OF white sail