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27. " O LE ALA E TASi LO LE MAUGA I Olo. " — " There is only 

 one road to the mountain of Olo." 



This phrase is used when parties are of one opinion, or will be 

 equally affected by anything to be done, but the primary meaning 

 f s given in the story is that there is no difference between two given 

 objects. The words were used by Alaalaaloo, the wife of Tagaloa, 

 of Falealupo. Tagaloa had departed in anger from one of his 

 wives, Letelesa, because she did not give him some dry wraps when 

 he cam.e back from fishing. He went to Alaalaaloo and asked for 

 dry wraps, and she told him that she had plenty in the house. 

 She then told liim to go back to Letelesa, his wife, and used the 

 words to say that all women are alike. 



28. " Tausi lelei aua nei pei o Malalavalea." — "Take 

 good care of, and be not like Malalavalea." 



29. " Ia faapei o LE TiuGA A Lematalaoa." — " Like the court- 

 ing of Lematalaoa." 



He was a man who remembered every word which he heard. I 

 have not got the whole of the story. 



30. "Eg Amoa le ma'i a e ma'i fua o Faufau ia." — It was 

 Amoa (a district) which had the disease, but Faufau got it need- 

 lessly." 



31^ " O LE MULUGA A Veve MA Veve." — " The grumblings of 

 Veve and Veve." 



Veve as a common noun means the leaves which are used to 

 cover the native oven to keep in the heat whilst food is being 

 cooked, but in this case, I think Veve and Veve are proper names. 

 The phrase is used of family quarrels, or of differences between 

 friends, which are not very serious, and in any case are to be 

 confined to themselves. 



32. " O LE MEA A Oi."— " The doing (work) of Oi." 



Oi was a man who made a very large oven of food for visitors, 

 including a large quantity of faiai (cooked juice of the coco-nut). 

 When people spoke to him about it, he said, " Who is going to be 

 niggardly when chiefs are in the housed' i'he phrase is now used 

 of anything great, such as food, property, houses, travelling 

 parties, &c. 



33. "O LE LAULALO A AsiATA." — " The intercession of Asiata." 

 Asiata was a chief of Satupaitea, in the family of Savalomua. 



He had incurred the anger of Fonoti, the King. One day he said to 

 Fonoti, " Will you listen to me, O King, whilst I sing a short 

 song?" and the King said, "Let us hear your song." Then 

 Asiata sang, " O le tosoga i au i ola ta fefe lou le pule " — " O the 

 beseechings (lit., draggings) by numbers for remission of punish- 



