SAMOAN GROUP. 



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generally a tenor character; the strains are mostly in the minor scale, 

 and sung in the key of two or three flats. 



The following boat-songs will give an idea of them : 



First Voice. 



Fo - fa 

 Second Voice. 

 ± 



p-5p — p — |k-^J^-##J^— 3Ip — p— Iff 



Fo - fa - e. 



na ogi - le. 



Another : 



First Voice 



te ta - ma - 1 



le fou aue 



Second Voice. 



-In T - 



3=^^^e 



Au ta - na - lo 



ZR — — ! — #-F #-#- #-#-F| — #-#-4- F — — 



i 



Tute ta - mai le fou aue 



fia oe Au ta - na - lo fia oe. 



" Cook* tells you pull away, 

 I will do so, and so must you." 



The work in which the Samoans show their greatest ingenuity, is in 

 the construction of their native houses, and particularly of their fale- 

 teles or council-houses, some of which are of large dimensions. They 

 are built of the wood of the bread-fruit tree, and there are two modes 

 in use, their own, and that borrowed from the Friendly Islands. The 

 true Samoan house is slightly oval ; those of the Friendly Islands are 

 oblong. They may be said to consist of three parts, the centre and 

 two ends; the former is erected first. For this purpose the three 

 centre posts, which are twenty-five or thirty feet high, are usually 

 first raised ; on these rests the ridge-pole. A staging or scaffolding is 

 now erected, nearly in the form of the roof, which serves for ladders 

 and to support the roof temporarily. The roof is commenced at the 



* All the natives have some knowledge of Captain Cook, derived from their communication 

 with the Friendly Islands. 



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