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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: country, including the plain of Falefa.
He was left in peace from 11th October till November 6th. But his
adversary is not wholly to be blamed for this delay, which depended
upon island etiquette. His Savaii contingent had not yet come in,
and to have moved again without waiting for them would have been
surely to offend, perhaps to lose them. With the month of November
they began to arrive: on the 2nd twenty boats, on the 3rd twenty-
nine, on the 5th seventeen. On the 6th the position Mataafa had so
long occupied on the skirts of Apia was deserted; all that day and
night his force kept streaming eastward to Laulii; and on the 7th
the siege of Lotoanuu was opened with a brisk skirmish.
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