"bullamacow," which has remained the name for beef or cattle ever
since.--[L.O.]

[18] In the letters that were sent to Austin Strong you will be
surprised to see his name change from Austin to Hoskyns, and from
Hopkins to Hutchinson. It was the penalty Master Austin had to pay
for being the particular and bosom friend of each of the one hundred
and eighty bluejackets that made up the crew of the British
man-of-war _Curacoa_; for, whether it was due to some bitter memories
of the Revolutionary war, or to some rankling reminiscences of 1812,
that even friendship could not altogether stifle (for Austin was a
true American boy), they annoyed him by giving him, each one of them,
a separate name.--[L.O.]

[19] The big conch-shell that was blown at certain hours every
day.--[L.O.]

[20] Mrs. R. L. S., as she is called in Samoan, "the lady."--[L.O.]

[21] A visiting party.

[22] Talolo was the Vailima cook; Sina, his wife; Tauilo, his mother;
Mitaele and Sosimo, his brothers. Lafaele, who was married to Faauma,
was a middle-aged Futuna Islander, and had spent many years of his
life on a whale-ship, the captain of which had kidnapped him when a
boy. Misifolo was one of the "house-maids." Iopu and Tali, man and
wife, had long been in our service, but had left it after they had
been married some time; but, according to Samoan ideas, they were
none the less members of Tusitala's family, because, though they were
no longer working for him, they still owed him allegiance. "Aunt
Maggie" is Mr. Stevenson's mother; Palema, Mr. Graham
Balfour.--[L.O.]

[23] While Austin was in Vailima many little duties about the
plantation fell to his share, so that he was often called the
"overseer"; and small as he was, he sometimes took charge of a couple
of big men, and went into town with the pack-horses. It was not all
play, either, for he had to see that the barrels and boxes did not
chafe the horses' backs, and that they were not allowed to come home
too fast up the steep road.--[L.O.]

[24] A room set apart to serve as the theatre for an elaborate
war-game, which was one of Mr. Stevenson's favourite recreations.

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