Letter from George Emmett Browning Sr., 17 July 1893
To the First Presidency of the Church,
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dear Brethren:
It afford me much pleasure to have the privilege
of reporting to you at the present time that through the bless-
ings of our heavenly Father, all the Elders and Sisters in
this part of the Lords vineyard are in the possession of good
health for which we are truly thankful. I did not recei-
ve a letter from you this month hence do not know wheather
the missionaries I sent for to come next month will arrive
or not, however I shall meet the steamer upon its arrival
so in case they do come then there will not be any trouble.
The political troubles here on Samoa have at last come
to a crisis; on saturday the 8th. inst. at about 4 P.M. the govern-
ment supporters made an attack upon the rebels at a place
about six miles from here, and they fought until dark, which
resulted in four being killed on the goverment side and
about twenty of the rebels, the government forces succeeded
in cuting off fourteen of the rebels heads and taking
them to the king, as the custom among the samoans when
fighting is to cut off as many of the enemies heads as possible
and take them to their king or leader, when daylight
dawned sunday morning the rebel leader, Mataafa, with
all his forces deserted their headquartes and fled to a
small island, named Manono, situated two miles out from
the west end of the island, which is thirty miles from here,
