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      THE WORKS OF
  ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

     SWANSTON EDITION
       VOLUME XVII

  _Of this SWANSTON EDITION in Twenty-five
  Volumes of the Works of ROBERT LOUIS
  STEVENSON Two Thousand and Sixty Copies
  have been printed, of which only Two Thousand
  Copies are for sale._

  _This is No._..........

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  THE WORKS OF
  ROBERT LOUIS
   STEVENSON

  VOLUME SEVENTEEN


  LONDON: PUBLISHED BY CHATTO AND
  WINDUS: IN ASSOCIATION WITH CASSELL
  AND COMPANY LIMITED: WILLIAM
  HEINEMANN: AND LONGMANS GREEN
  AND COMPANY MDCCCCXII


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CONTENTS

  A FOOTNOTE TO HISTORY


  EIGHT YEARS OF TROUBLE IN SAMOA

   CHAPTER                                                    PAGE
      I. THE ELEMENTS OF DISCORD: NATIVE                         5

     II. THE ELEMENTS OF DISCORD: FOREIGN                       15

    III. THE SORROWS OF LAUPEPA (1883 _to September_ 1887)      27

    