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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: barracks of the firm itself. Thence he will pass through Matafele,
the one really town-like portion of this long string of villages,
by German bars and stores and the German consulate; and reach the
Catholic mission and cathedral standing by the mouth of a small
river. The bridge which crosses here (bridge of Mulivai) is a
frontier; behind is Matafele; beyond, Apia proper; behind, Germans
are supreme; beyond, with but few exceptions, all is Anglo-Saxon.
Here the reader will go forward past the stores of Mr. Moors
(American) and Messrs. MacArthur (English); past the English
mission, the office of the English newspaper, the English church,
and the old American consulate, till he reaches the mouth of a
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