Mars Salon in 1895.

[9] Mrs. B. W. Procter, the stepdaughter of Basil Montagu and widow
of Barry Cornwall. The death of this spirited veteran in 1888
snapped one of the last links with the days and memories of Keats
and Coleridge. A shrewd and not too indulgent judge of character,
she took R. L. S. into warm favour at first sight, and never spoke of
or inquired after him but with unwonted tenderness.

[10] On a projected expedition to Sydney.

[11] See _A Footnote to History_ for more in praise of Dr. Stuebel,
and of his exceptional deserts among white officials in Samoa.

[12] One of the many aliases of the wicked Skye-terrier of Hyeres,
Davos, and Bournemouth days, celebrated in the essay _On the
Character of Dogs_.

[13] _Battre les champs_, to wander in mind.

[14] _Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin_, by R. L. S., prefixed to _Papers
Literary, Scientific, etc., by the late Fleeming Jenkin, F.R.S.,
LL.D._; 2 vols. London, Longmans, 1887. The first chapters consist
of a genealogical history of the family. This, to my mind one of the
best works of R. L. S., has lately been separately reprinted, having
long been accessible only in the Edinburgh and Pentland editions. Of
_Delafleld_ I never heard; the plan of _Shovel_, which was to be in
great part a story of the Peninsular War, had been sketched out and
a few chapters written as long ago as the seventies.

[15] _The Misadventures of John Nicholson._

[16] The South Sea Letters.

[17] The price advanced for these Letters was among the considerations
which originally induced the writer to set out on his Pacific voyage.

[18] The first serial tale, says Mr. Clarke, ever read by Samoans in
their own language was the story of the _Bottle Imp_, "which found
its way into print at Samoa, and was read with wonder and delight in
many a thatched Samoan hut before it won the admiration of readers
at home." In the English form the story was published first in Black
and White, and afterwards in the volume called _Island Nights'
Entertainments_.

[19] Boating expedition: pronounce _malanga_.

[20] Portraits of myself for which he had asked.

[21] Miss Fanny Macpherson, now Lady Holroyd.

[22] In reply to a suggestion which ultimately took effect in the
shape of the volume called _Across the Plains_ (Chatto & Windus,
1892).

[23] The steam-yacht