A Footnote to History
by Robert Louis Stevenson
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About this eBook
- Author
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
- Title
- A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
- Credits
- Transcribed from the 1912 Swanston edition by David Price
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DU: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: History of Oceania (South Seas)
- Subject
- Samoan Islands -- History
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 536
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/536
- Release Date
- May 1, 1996
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.A FOOTNOTE TO HISTORY EIGHT YEARS OF TROUBLE IN SAMOA by Robert Louis Stevenson
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CHAPTER I—THE ELEMENTS OF DISCORD: NATIVE
- 4.CHAPTER II—THE ELEMENTS OF DISCORD: FOREIGN
- 5.CHAPTER III—THE SORROWS OF LAUPEPA, 1883 TO 1887
- 6.CHAPTER IV—BRANDEIS
- 7.CHAPTER V—THE BATTLE OF MATAUTU
- 8.CHAPTER VI—LAST EXPLOITS OF BECKER
- 9.CHAPTER VII—THE SAMOAN CAMPS
- 10.CHAPTER VIII—AFFAIRS OF LAULII AND FANGALII
- 11.CHAPTER IX—“FUROR CONSULARIS”
- 12.CHAPTER X—THE HURRICANE
- 13.CHAPTER XI—LAUPEPA AND MATAAFA
- 14.FOOTNOTES
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