STEVENSON'S GRAVE.
Mr Gelett Burgess, a San Francisco editor, recently designed a pair of memorial tablets for Stevenson's grave on the summit of Yese Vaea Mountain, and these are now on their Way to Samoa. The tomb of Tnsitala in every way resembles that of a Samoan chief. It consists of a simple block of concrete resting upon a platform ot the same material. " On each aide of this curious sarcophagug," says a recent number of the Sketch, "will be fastened tbe two tablets. On the one is incribed the • requiem' written by himself many years ago, and simply setting forth the years of his birth and death, the Greek alpha and omega, 'the Beginning and the End.' On the other tablet will run, in Samoan,' The High Chief Grave of Tusitala,' with the Scottish thistle and the hibiscus of tbe South Seas, and two verses from the Book of Ruth, in the Samoan language, " Whither thou goest I will go, and where thou lodgest I will lodge ; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou dieet I will die, and there will I be buried.'"
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9739, 29 May 1897, Page 8
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