GENEALOGY OF THE SUN — A SAMOAN LEGEND. 449 



The woman asked.. Will he be a long time oi* will he come .soon ?? 

 The man answers thus :: — 



*To-morrow will the trade wind blow,, 

 By this time of the day he will have come ;; 

 Though seeming distant, still 'tis near ;; 

 Wiien he arrives, do you come.. 

 The man descends to the earth,, for his chief to ascend.. He 

 descends to Tafa'i and Alise and gives them his report.. He tells 

 them the words of the woman.. Tafa'i bids him,, make a girdle of its 

 leaves,, and then take it and dip it into the sea,, also dip the musty 

 portionsof meat.. Tlie man tlien re-ascends with these two things.. 

 Tafa'i comes f rona Tutnila, then the man ascends with his gifts to 

 Sinataeoilangi, the daughter off Tangaloalangi..| He places the 

 things before her, and she rejects them with disdain, because they 

 were musty and unpleasant.. Why, [said he], have you rejected the 

 provisions of Tafa'i ?? They were musty from the voyage.. Then 

 said the woman, Sina,, Go and bring up Tafa'i.. Joyfully the man 

 went to the brothers.. Then the brothers prepared to ascend to 

 the woman.. § As they went, they consulted together on the way.. 

 The brothers were both handsome.. They presented their request 

 to their god to give them ugly bodies, lest they should be killed.. || 

 Then the pair appeared in front of tlie house in which was Sina.. 

 She disliked to look at their bodies which appeared so ugly.. She 

 said,. Go tp that end of the house, and sleep there on the cocoa-nut 

 leaf mats, lest the sleeping mats be dirtied.. The pair tlien slept 

 at night on the cocoa-nut mats.. When it was near morning, the 

 morning birds whistled.. Then the brothers asked their god to 

 restore to them their handsome bodies.. When it was broad day- 

 light, Sina was pensive.. She sat with the ^wife-seekers of thehand- 

 some men of the skies.. She saw the end of the house shining ; 

 the young men arose to go on their return journey, it being 

 morning.. The woman repents [of having rejected them], and 

 rises up to follow them.. Then she calls to them, Tafa'i stop !! 

 [They answer], Siiia, come on.. In this way she followed them till 

 they reached their own land.. They descended to the place where 

 their parents dwelt.. Then Tafa'i pushed the woman down into a 

 long chasm ; and the two went down to the sea beach to their 

 own land.. Pua and Singano heard the woman crying from the 

 bottom of the chasm :: — 



I have been pushed down into the long chasm ;; . .»•' ' '"" -^,. 



Cover me with the leaves of themafoa.. y'V'''^"' ~ ' '*^ /N 



I have been pushed down the great chasm ;; Jr^ - • * * ^tt -^ 



Cover me with leaves of the maugele,, /^ • '■ 



And with the wide leaves of the fan^-ufangu.. ?• . 



* A Soiiu. 



I The jrruat God of I'olynesia. 

 X There is much repetition here. 

 § Repetition in JIS. '^. 



II Throujfh jealousy. .-'^-. 

 *TI Soa, " Persons who acted as a KO-between to a young man and woman. % ^''> 



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