Old Samoan Days by Louis Becke is about a white man residing in Apia in Samoa when the Jamestown ship stops for a brief visit. Excerpt: "We lived right merrily down there in fair Samoa, four-and-twenty years ago, in the days when our hearts were young, and those of us who had dug our trenches before the City of Fortune took no heed of the watches of the night; for then to us, there was no night—only long, long happy days of mirth and jollity…"
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