Their Countrymen Drowned
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They Stood To Attention As Their Countrymen Drowned
Th P ctorv of the great Apia hurricane (“PIM” February), in which only the “Pal Hone” cscaned set me delving into old family files. In 1892 my mother then ™ Wolr p with her Sister Lily (later Mrs. Percy Hunter and mother of David Florence Blair with her sister uiy i brQther Bm Blair> spent man y 2S£ ”n Samoa ’while the hurricane of 1889 still a hot topic; and she had • in perfect formation while, their countrymen "cued SSTIX IwToftL Trfc k 1 “ e us P and Sl Oerm.Tships. Samoans of opposing factions saved US Z d moa« a Vo a “ 0 gr S ea a t lll! d e ellght In describing the Samoans' burlesque of their My mother tooK great b never tired of enacting the scene of German G ffl rman rhfr a a HSf thefr Sen bjSffig staccato orders and responding in the jerky officers parading thei ’ Th ® wou id g 0 through this routine as a sort of fashion of taThiiarity they could hold the joke no longer, ballet until they bu Samoans were the most hospitable and charming people She often said th WO rld and certainly some of the most handsome, she met in a many photographs of celebrites and notorieties - SS name JDavK samoa ' punched