He left Fangalii unexpiated; suffered that house of cards, the Tamasese government, to fall by its own frailty and without remark or lamentation; left the Samoan question openly and fairly to the conference: and in the meanwhile, to allay the local heats engendered by Becker and Knappe, he sent to Apia that invaluable public servant, Dr.Stuebel.

I should be a dishonest man if I did not bear testimony to the loyalty since shown by Germans in Samoa.

Their position was painful; they had talked big in the old days, now they had to sing small.

Even Stuebel returned to the islands under the prejudice of an unfortunate record.

To the minds of the Samoans his name represented the beginning of their sorrows; and in his first term of office he had unquestionably driven hard.