[10] On a projected expedition to Sydney.
[11] See A Footnote to History for more in praise of Dr. Stuebel, and of his exceptional deserts among white officials in Samoa.
[12] One of the many aliases of the wicked Skye-terrier of Hyères, Davos, and Bournemouth days, celebrated in the essay On the Character of Dogs.
[13] Battre les champs, to wander in mind.
[14] Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin, by R. L. S., prefixed to Papers Literary, Scientific, etc., by the late Fleeming Jenkin, F.R.S., LL.D.; 2 vols. London, Longmans, 1887. The first chapters consist of a genealogical history of the family. This, to my mind one of the best works of R. L. S., has lately been separately reprinted, having long been accessible only in the Edinburgh and Pentland editions. Of Delafleld I never heard; the plan of Shovel, which was to be in great part a story of the Peninsular War, had been sketched out and a few chapters written as long ago as the seventies.
[15] The Misadventures of John Nicholson.
[16] The South Sea Letters.
[17] The price advanced for these Letters was among the considerations which originally induced the writer to set out on his Pacific voyage.
[18] The first serial tale, says Mr. Clarke, ever read by Samoans in their own language was the story of the Bottle Imp, “which found its way into print at Samoa, and was read with wonder and delight in many a thatched Samoan hut before it won the admiration of readers at home.” In the English form the story was published first in Black and White, and afterwards in the volume called Island Nights’ Entertainments.
[19] Boating expedition: pronounce malanga.