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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: o'clock two Mataafa villages paraded the streets of Apia, taking
possession. The cost of this respectable success in ammunition
must have been enormous; in life it was but small. Some compute
forty killed on either side, others forty on both, three or four
being women and one a white man, master of a schooner from Fiji.
Nor was the number even of the wounded at all proportionate to the
surprising din and fury of the affair while it lasted.
CHAPTER VI - LAST EXPLOITS OF BECKER
SEPTEMBER - NOVEMBER 1888
BRANDEIS had held all day by Mulinuu, expecting the reported real
attack. He woke on the 13th to find himself cut off on that
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