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The centre-piece of all is the high chief himself, Malietoa-Tuiatua-Tuiaana Mataafa, king or not king or king-claimant of Samoa. All goes to him, all comes from him. Native deputations bring him gifts and are feasted in return. He summons his dancers by the note of a bugle.
Robert Louis Stevenson - A Footnote to History : Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa

The centre-piece of all is the high chief himself, Malietoa-Tuiatua-Tuiaana Mataafa, king or not king or king-claimant of Samoa. All goes to him, all comes from him. Native deputations bring him gifts and are feasted in return. He summons his dancers by the note of a bugle.
Robert Louis Stevenson - The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 17
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