Footnotes:
[1] I have described this island more particularly because it was the first I visited, and has ever since remained “a memory apart, virginal.” But looking back I realise that Nukualofa is by no means a beautiful type of coral island, since in common with all the Tongan group it is absolutely flat, and wholly lacks that diversity of outline (due to volcanic agency) which is the leading characteristic of the Samoan and Fijian groups.
[2] His Majesty King George of Tonga being in residence, the villa palace was inaccessible to visitors.
[3] More correctly mammy apples—the fruit of the “paw-paw” tree.
[4] If the reader wishes to understand the political history of Samoa let him read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest Stevenson’s “Footnote to History.”
[5] September, 1894, Vailima Letters.
[6] I am told this finger-post is now a thing of the past.
[7] Since reading Mr. Balfour’s Life of Stevenson, I am led to infer these last were a sort of fresh-water prawns.
[8] Vailima Letters, November, 1890.
[9] I have since I wrote this been informed by a member of the family that although the hole existed it was not between the library and the bedroom.