With Stevenson in Samoa (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from With Stevenson in Samoa

To recall the quiet evenings we spent together, exchanging stories and talking about books and their writers. All reserve was thrown aside; we talked to each other as man to man, and friend to friend. His various literary projects were all made known to me, and we spent many hours in discussing them. Most of what he wrote in Samoa I had the priv ilege of reading in the manuscript; indeed, I supplied him with some of the material for his stories. As to A Footnote to History, a stirring account of the Samoan troubles extending over a period of eight years, the greater part of it was written in my house. Ah, if he had only lived to continue the his tory! For, verily, stranger and more mon strous things were done after his death than ever were dreamed of before it. From petty bickerings among the Samoans, situations arose which brought about serious conflicts; and more reputations were wrecked, more lives lost, and much more property destroyed in the short space of four months, than dur.

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