Identifier: samoaumawherelif00chur (find matches)
Title: Samoa 'uma, where life is different
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Churchill, Llewella Pierce, Mrs. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, Forest and Stream publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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backing, butthis was not suspected at the time and is not yetacknowledged). The war of the puppets was a littlething; the great thing was that this war had broughttogether seven warships of the United States, Ger-many and Great Britain, and from moment to momentit was a tremendous strain to keep the old Trentonand the Vandalia and the Nipsic from measuringtheir wooden walls and obsolete armament againstthe steel walls of the German squadron. But a blastfrom the skies fell upon the situation and cleared itup. It was on that day that the hurricane did itsgreatest destruction and made the petty harbor ofApia famous. Seven ships were there when the bar-ometer gave abundant and timely warning of thestorm about to come, three American, three Germanand one British. Had the warning been taken, thereneed have been no disaster, for there was abundanttime to run to Tutuila, where Pago Pago harbordefies every gale that blows. But fighting blood wasup and no commander would be the first to run. 20
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O THE REAL SAMOA. When the gale was over the German Olga was onthe beach, and later was floated off, the Eber lay atthe bottom of the harbor, the Adler was high and drybeam-end on the reef, where she is likely to remain agrim monument so long as rivets and German steelcan hold out against the unrelenting war of time andrust. The British Calliope as by a miracle won herway to safey by the narrowest margin in the veryteeth of the gale. Of the American fleet the Trentonand the Vandalia were wrecks beyond repair, whilethe Nipsic was high up on the beach. She was floatedout and was just able to hobble back to Honolulu, andis now at Puget Sound Navy Yard. This shocked the world into a sense of what wasbeing done in this distant part of the world, and sanerthought felt that all Samoa was not worth this loss oflife. The result was the agreement of the threepowers upon the Berlin Act. Almost before the actwas enacted it proved itself but a feeble piece of paper,a commodity of which Samoan poli

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