Robert Louis Stevenson The Samoans insisted on surrounding his body with a watch-guard during the night and on bearing him on their shoulders to nearby Mount Vaea, where they buried him on a spot overlooking the sea on land donated by British Acting Vice Consul Thomas Trood. Stevenson had always wanted his Requiem inscribed on his tomb: Stevenson was loved by the Samoans, and his tombstone epigraph was translated to a Samoan song of grief. Half of Stevenson's original manuscripts are lost, including those of "Treasure Island", "The Black Arrow," and "The Master of Ballantrae". His heirs sold his papers during World War
Toilers of the Sea credited with introducing the Guernésiais word for octopus ("pieuvre") into the French language (standard French for octopus is "poulpe"). The following dedication appears at the front of the book: The novel was first published in Brussels in 1866 (Hugo was in exile from France). An English translation quickly appeared in New York later that year, under the title "The Toilers of the Sea". A UK edition followed in 1887, with Ward Lock publishing Sir G Campbell's translation under the title "Workers of the Sea" followed by an 1896 Routledge edition under the title "Toilers of the Sea". Hugo had originally