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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: island of Savaii. Savaii has no royal name to bestow, all the five
being in the gift of different districts of Upolu; but she has the
weight of numbers, and in these latter days has acquired a certain
force by the preponderance in her councils of a single man, the
orator Lauati. The reader will now understand the peculiar
significance of a deputation which should embrace Lauati and the
orators of both Malie and Manono, how it would represent all that
is most effective on the Malietoa side, and all that is most
considerable in Samoan politics, except the opposite feudal party
of the Tupua. And in the temptation brought to bear on Mataafa,
even the Tupua was conjoined. Tamasese was dead. His followers
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