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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: September the German squadron dispersed about the group, bearing
along with them the proclamations of the new king. Tamasese was
now a great man, to have five iron war-ships for his post-runners.
But the moment was critical. The revolution had to be explained,
the chiefs persuaded to assemble at a fono summoned for the 15th;
and the ships carried not only a store of printed documents, but a
squad of Tamasese orators upon their round.
Such was the German COUP D'ETAT. They had declared war with a
squadron of five ships upon a single man; that man, late king of
the group, was in hiding on the mountains; and their own nominee,
backed by German guns and bayonets, sat in his stead in Mulinuu.
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