H2 UPOLU — MANONO — S A V A I I. 



but obtained a complete ascendency over Upolu, where he compelled 

 all to give up their property to him, and to yield the women of all 

 classes to his desires. 



Finally, bis tyranny and excesses exceeded the bounds of patience, 

 and the people of Aana rose against him, conquered and put him to 

 death. From this arose the war of Aana, which will be again spoken 

 of; for the chiefs of the other islands considered themselves bound to 

 avenge the death of Tamafago. The people of the other districts of 

 Upolu were not united in the support of their neighbours of Aana, 

 who had made themselves almost universally odious by their haughty 

 bearing. The war was a bloody one, and resulted, after a continuance 

 of two or three years, in the entire defeat of the people of Aana by 

 those of Manono, who expelled them from their district, and forbade 

 their return to it on pain of death. 



This fertile region remained entirely unoccupied until the arrival 

 of the missionaries; but when the Christian influences of their 

 preaching began to be felt, the decree that condemned Aana to 

 solitude was annulled, and the few of its former inhabitants who 

 had escaped slaughter, were permitted to return to their ancient 

 homes. 



The island of Manono, whose inhabitants exerted such an influence 

 in the closing scenes of the war of Aana, is situated within the sea- 

 reef of Upolu. It contains eleven hundred inhabitants, and is the 

 residence of the chief Pea, who must be distinguished from the 

 inferior personage of the same name who resides at Apia. This 

 island is covered with forests throughout its whole extent; its cir- 

 cumference is about four miles ; and it is the station of one of the 

 English missionaries. 



In spite of its small extent and scanty population, Manono is 

 identified with the political history of all the other islands of the 

 group ; for, during the reigns of the two Tamafagos, it held supremacy 

 over them. The reason of its acqvuring and exercising this political 

 supremacy, is principally to be ascribed to the possession by its inhabi- 

 tants of the small island of Apolima, which they used as their " olo" or 

 citadel. To this retreat, inaccessible except at a single point, the 

 inhabitants of Manono were in the habit of retiring when pressed by 

 too powerful an enemy, and when his rage had spent itself, they 

 thence returned to their home with undiminished numbers. 



This natural fortress lies between Manono and Savaii, and sound- 



