afford — Tongan Place Names 



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Koe lau ape, tokua, e uha. 

 Mea hake mua oku fetuua, 

 Pea oku i langi e Aloua, 

 Pea oku tafitonga e afua : 



Matangi ke funga Alakifonua, 



Pea talolo he funga Eua. 



Ka hoko o hema pea toki uha. 



Koe mala eni o ha po uha ; 

 Fai ai e afe fakamalua, 



A ena ape oku manatua. 



11. He nai manu oe pale, 

 Ake mai kuo vale. 

 Nai manu oe kaho, 

 Ake mai kuo aho. 



12. Liku Tonga, liku tapu, 



Laulea moe ngalu. 

 ij. Oku tangi e tua ke tau he toa : 



Kae toatoa toe tua pe. 



It is said, by some, it will rain. 

 Please observe it is starry, 

 And the star Aloua stands in the sky. 

 When the wind is from the south it 



will be fine : 

 The wind is from the direction of 



Alakifonua, 

 And it dies away on the top of Eua. 

 When it is from the left then it will 



rain. 

 The misfortune of a rainy night ; 

 When it comes, the turning aside for 



shelter, 

 Which perhaps' j'ou remember. 



11. Strayed perhaps the bird of the prize. 

 Revived it was silly. 



Perhaps the bird of the reed. 

 Revived when it was day 



12. Weather shore of Tonga, the sacred 



weather shore, 

 Much talked of and its surf. 



13. The commoner cries to fight to be a 



brave : 

 And if a brave falls he becomes a 

 commoner. 



DISTRIBUTION OF PLACE NAMES IN RELATION TO TONGAN HISTORY 



The 4776 place names recorded for the kingdom of Tonga are dis- 

 tributed between the five island groups : Tongatabu, Haapai, Vavau, Niua- 

 foou, and Niuatoputapu. Of the total 4776 names, 3922 are limited to single 

 island groups and 854 are common to two or more groups. The total 

 number of names in each group is governed in large measure by the size 

 of the groups, a large area naturally having more names than a small one. 

 In Table i the number of names peculiar to each group and the number 

 shared with other groups are shown : 



T.\BLE I. NAMES IN EACH GROUP 



Peculiar Shared Total 



Tongatabu 1561 703 2264 



Haapai 1069 541 1610 



Vavau 940 573 1513 



Niuafoou 252 167 419 



Niuatoputapu 100 92 192 



Table 2 shows the percentage of names in each group peculiar to the 



group and the percentage of names shared with other groups. 



