Footnote 51: Her son-in law, Mr. Strong.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 52: It will be remembered that Teuila was the native name of Mrs. Stevenson's daughter.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 53: In the old times kava, or ava, as it is sometimes spelled, was prepared by being chewed by young girls especially chosen for the purpose, and then made into a brew.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 54: A disease of the tropics, said to be transmitted by the bite of mosquitoes, which causes enormous enlargement of the parts affected. Mrs. Stevenson cured this boy, Mitaele, of elephantiasis by Dr. Funk's remedy of rubbing the diseased vein with blue ointment and giving him a certain prescribed drug.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 55: Mulinuu was the seat of government. King Malietoa lived there.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 56: Now Mrs. Salisbury Field.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 57: Mrs. Strong will be remembered as the little Isobel Osbourne of the early pages of this book.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 58: Quoted by courtesy of Henry James of New York, nephew of the novelist.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 59: It is the custom in Samoa to go barefoot in the wet season, in order to avoid the unpleasantness of soggy wet shoes.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 60: This was the "Road of the Loving Hearts," built by the Mataafa chiefs in return for Tusitala's kindness to them when they were in prison.[Back to Main Text]