such; but the course of the affair, and in particular the adventures of Haideln and Hufnagel, testify to a surprising lack of animosity against the Germans.  About the same time or but a little earlier than this conversation, the same spirit was being displayed.  Hufnagel, with a party of labour, had gone out to bring in the German dead, when he was surprised to be suddenly fired on from the wood.  The boys he had with him were not negritos, but Polynesians from the Gilbert Islands; and he suddenly remembered that these might be easily mistaken for a detachment of Tamaseses.  Bidding his boys conceal themselves in a thicket, this brave man walked into the open.  So soon as he was recognised, the firing ceased, and the labourers followed him in safety.  This is chivalrous war; but there was a side to it less chivalrous.  As Moors drew nearer to Vailele, he began to meet Samoans with hats, guns, and even shirts, taken from the German sailors.  With one of these who had a hat and a gun he stopped and spoke.  The hat was handed up for him to look at; it had the late owner’s name on the inside.  “Where is he?” asked Moors.  “He is dead; I cut his head off.”  “You shot him?” “No, somebody else shot him in the hip.  When I came, he put up his hands, and cried:  ‘Don’t kill me; I am a Malietoa man.’  I did not believe him, and I cut his head off......  Have you any ammunition to fit that gun?” “I do not know.”  “What has become of the cartridge-belt?” “Another fellow grabbed that and the cartridges, and he won’t give them to me.”  A dreadful and silly picture of barbaric war.  The words of the German sailor must be regarded as imaginary:  how was the poor lad to speak native, or the Samoan to understand German?  When Moors came as far as Sunga, the Eber was yet in the bay, the smoke of battle still lingered among the trees, which were themselves marked with a thousand bullet-wounds.  But the affair was over, the combatants, German and Samoan, were all gone, and only a couple of negrito labour boys lurked on the scene.  The village of Letongo beyond was equally silent; part of it was wrecked by the shells of the Eber, and still smoked; the inhabitants had fled.  On the beach were the native boats, perhaps five thousand dollars’ worth, deserted by the Mataafas and overlooked by the Germans, in their common hurry to escape.  Still Moors held eastward by the sea-paths.  It was his hope to get a view from the other side of the promontory, towards Laulii.  In the way he found a house hidden in the wood and among rocks, where an aged and sick woman was being tended by her elderly daughter.  Last lingerers in that deserted piece of coast, they seemed indifferent to the events which had thus left them solitary, and, as the daughter said, did not know where Mataafa was, nor where Tamasese.