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from the rising of the sun to the setting of the sun, (ab oriente ad occi- 

 dentem.}* It appears, however, that in the first expression (hitia) 

 the suffiix a is not necessary, for in Matt. viii. 11, we have "mai te 

 hiti oterae te tooa o te ra," " from the east and the west," literally, 

 from the rise of the sun, &c. It should be observed that the double 

 o in tooa is written by the missionaries to distinguish it from toa, 

 south, but the pronunciation of both is the same, and, in propriety, 

 the spelling should be alike. Restoring therefore the latter phrase to 

 what it would be in Samoan, or in the original form, we shall have 

 " mai te FITI o te la e te TOJA o te la." But the addition " o te la" is 

 not necessary to the sense. In Hawaiian hitina alone is the regular 

 term for east. 



We have, therefore, to account for two facts, each of them suffi- 

 ciently strange ; first, that two groups, situated four hundred miles 

 apart, and inhabited by different races, should bear names which are 

 plainly correlative; and secondly, that these names should be the 

 exact opposite to what their meaning would seem to require, the 

 Tonga, or western country, lying to the east, and the Fiti, or eastern 

 land, to the west. 



3. A remarkable mythological tradition, given by Mariner, as pre- 

 valent in the Tonga Islands, though its real purport appears to have 

 been forgotten in the lapse of time, affords a clue to the origin and 

 explanation of these phenomena. It is, in substance, as follows : 

 Tangaloa and his two sons dwelt in Eolotoo (or, more correctly, Bulotu). 

 He commanded them, saying, " Go and take with you your wives, and 

 dwell in the world at Tonga ; divide the land into two portions, and 

 dwell separately from each other." They departed accordingly. The 

 name of the eldest was Tub6 (Tubou); that of the youngest Vaka- 

 akauuli, who was an exceedingly wise young man, and first formed 

 axes and invented beads and cloth and looking-glasses. The other 

 acted differently, being very indolent, sauntering about and sleeping, 

 and envying the works of his younger brother. His evil disposition 

 led him, at last, to waylay his brother and kill him. Thereupon 

 Tangaloa came from Bul6tu with great auger, and after rebuking the 

 murderer for his crime, called together the family of his younger son, 

 and directed them to launch their canoes, and sail to the east (ki 

 tokelau, toward the trade-wind), to the great land there, and dwell 



* " From sunrise until sunset, 

 All earth shall hear thy fame." 



Macaulay's "Prophecy of Capys." 



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