Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-08-20
GLIMPSES OF SAMOA.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE DESCRIBES THE
ISLANDS AND THEIR CUSTOMS.

| ISLANDS AND l7ElR Gus OMo.
Scenes of Battle and shipwreck-A Visit to
the Royal PaIace-''Trade Gin" and
sKava" King Malietoa's Missionary
E1ag-Beach Combers.
/ copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1894.
APIA, Samoa, July "A hundred
and sixty dead men in the angry wa
tiers; one ship sunk out of sight so that
not SO much as plank Or rope has
since appeared; of our three great Amer
lean warships lying in the harbor the
Leipsic beached, the Trenton and Van
dalia demolished; of the three great
| German men of war the Eber and Olga
gone completely under; the Adler rolled
over on its side and cracking apart amid
| ships; out of all the vessels in harbOr
only one saved, and that because it had
steam up and could sail out into the
sea; three days of wreckage and fright
and horror which shook the island, and
| by report Of next steamer transfxed all
nations, all this a brief putting of what
all antipodean hurricane did for this
harbor in March, 1885, While all up
and down the beach Of this island are
alleled tempest, only one skeleton OF
ship remains, the Adler, sufficiently
distinct to represent that scene of cy-
clonic Inflammation. It is rather unfOr-
tunate that Samoa, in the popular mind
of all nations stands as a synonym of
shipwreck, for the place is as fine
specimen Of foliage and fruitage as the
world holds. Indeed its harbOr is the
sea captains anxiety, for, though a
wide harbor, it has only small en-
trance, and rocks in all directions toss
the white foam. The captain told us we
need not think we were left if we saw
him sailing out to sea, for he would do
SO if a squall came up, but he would re-
turn and take us.
After more than seven days of ocean
rolling, without sight of ship or land,
the Samoan islands greet you like be-
attic vision. AS we came on deck this
morning the waters were covered with
small boats of natives bringing speci-
mems of coral and all manner of flowers
and fruits, ready to sell these and trans
port to shore all the passengers who
chose to go. A boat belonging to the
German legation, with four stout oars
men, took US three-quarters of a mile to
the beach. From thence we went to
King Malietoa's residence. But it is
time of war. The king had fed to the
forest. A few nights before he was
thought to be at village house, and it
was surrounded and shot into, and the
king would have been slain if he had
been there Tho whole island is in a
turmoil. We were shown the kings
rooms and his pictures and bric-a-brac.
The walls suggested fondness for Ger
man and English royalty, but | found
not the face of any American president
Or general We saw the queen. and at
the invitation of the warriors went into
the guards tent-about Is dusky sol
diers, each reclining on a pillow of
round wood upheld by two small sup
ports, moro uncomfortable pillow, it
would seem to me, than that i'll Bethel
from the foot of which Jacob saw the
ANGELES.
Each of the warriors had gun with
in reach At their invitation we sat
down OH u mat beside those who were
sitting and in scant vocabulary talked
over the Samoan troubles. We saw one
soldier who had been shot i'll the foot,
and he was limping along leaning on
an assistant Fonr men We're killed last
night in skirmish, and another Skin
mish is to take place tonight. There are
natives who do not want to pay their
taxes, and their various grievances have
been summed up, and a young warrior
wants to get the throne and introduce
the millennium.
A long continued struggle is opening.
Maop1u hi In q GarToan and Fin O1icb M an
of-war is in tho harbor, and an Ameri-
can moi war is expected soon. What
will be the result no one can prophesy.
But this is certain-this island and all
the group Of islands are suffering from
foreign interference. 1t is q common
saying among the natives that first
comes the missionary, then comes the
merchant, then comes the consul, then
comes the man-of- war, then-oh, myi
Why should three great nations like
the English, German and American
stoop to such small business as to be
watching with anxious and expensive
vigilance these islands for fear that this
or that foreign government should get a
little advantage? Better call home your
warships and leave all to the mission
aries. They will
.6Ssss-sanz.%S do more for the
~ EA civilization of
@@ -: W Samoa than all
N the guns that
W. ever spoke from
Wv the sides of the
If !: Ill., !: . ;::: IT,: !:
sAST /N an interesting
address few
MALIEToA- evenings ago
concerning the islands Of the Pacific,
declared that the only moYement toward