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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: the proper remedy. Knappe argued that this was a question between
Germans and Samoans, in which de Coetlogon had nothing to see; and
that he must protect German property according to his instructions.
To which de Coetlogon replied that he was himself in the same
attitude to the property of the British; that he understood Knappe
to be intending hostilities against Laulii; that Laulii was
mortgaged to the MacArthurs; that its crops were accordingly
British property; and that, while he was ever willing to recognise
the territorial rights of the Samoans, he must prevent that
property from being molested "by any other nation." "But if a
German man-of-war does it?" asked Knappe. - "We shall prevent it to
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