Footnote 61: A Samoan oven is made by digging a hole, lining it with hot stones, putting on top of them pigs, fish, chickens, taro, yams, etc., all wrapped in banana leaves, then piling hot stones on them and covering the whole with earth. In about four hours everything is cooked.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 62: The malae is the green lawn around which all Samoan villages are built.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 63: The fly flapper is a carved stick with a horse-hair tassel on the end.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 64: The taupo is the maid of the village. She is chosen for her beauty and is the official hostess to receive all guests.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 65: Nowadays the Samoans, having learned European ways, present the cup first to the ladies, but then it was faa-Samoa, that is, in Samoan fashion.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 66: Laulii, the Samoan wife of Mr. Willis, was a close friend of Mrs. Stevenson while she lived in the islands, and after she left there came to California to make her a visit at the ranch near Gilroy.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 67: Robert Stevenson, lighthouse engineer.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 68: Quoted by courtesy of Mr. Edmund Eitel, nephew of Mr. Riley.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 69: Robert Louis Stevenson's grandfather.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 70: The late Mrs. E. E. Mitchell, of Nebraska City, Nebraska.[Back to Main Text]