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went off in great indignation at the disgrace. On earth below, he planted 
the ‘taro’ eye; it became very productive, and he got from ita fine crop. 
Some time after, the young men came down to earth, and, seeing his 
plantation of ‘ taro,’ they said, “ After all, he did bring down the things 
of heaven.’? And so they carried off all his fruit. This incensed him 
still more, and from this arose the war in which they were subdued. 
3. Mr. Powell adds, ‘“‘ Tauanu‘u tells me that a hundred heroes and 
more were engaged in this war. Among them he mentions, Fai-malie 
and Fai-tamai; Pava-tai and Pava-uta; Le Fanonga, ‘ Destruction ’; in 
battle he carries everything before him; Le-Sa, ‘the sacred one,’ the 
son of Fatu and Le-‘Ele‘ele; Ti‘e-ti‘e, the adopted son of Ulu-le-papa; he 
fought with the ‘eight-livered’ giant; Moso-ma-fufulu; he stretched 
out his wings and covered his comrades from the rain; Lavei-fulu-fulu- 
i-tolo, a hero; and Ali-ngalu, the wife of Le Fanonga.”’ 
The ‘ Tala.’ 
4. Malae-La was the husband of Pulou-lou-tele, ‘ the big bon- 
netted,’ who was the daughter of Fatu and Le-‘Ele‘ele and mother 
of Losi. 
5. Two girls went down from the heavens, the children of 
Tangaloa, to borrow fish from Losi. Losi said, “ Have a sleep 
first.” Then he went to spear fish. He got fish. He. tied the 
fish with a rope ; he tied them with fue-fue-luea rope, on the sea 
side of Mutia-tele. Losi said to the girls, ‘‘Take your fish, you 
two.” 
They went there but the fish were fierce. The girls shouted 
to Losi. He said, ‘“‘Go on ahead, you two, and I will bring them.” 
Then the girls went on ahead to the sky. Losi went up and placed 
them all along in the doorways of the house. When the men 
came out, they trode on the fish; the fish wriggled about ; the 
men fell ; they were angry ; they abused Losi and said thus— 
“The dung of Losi is not like the fragrant yam” ! 
6. Losi remained, and the Sa-Tangaloa made an oven of food for 
him. ‘There was no ‘taro’ down there in those days. Losi took 
up of the scrapings of the taro a little piece, and secreted it under 
his girdle. Sa-Tangaloa suspected him of the theft. They searched 
him without ceremony, but found nothing. Losi was angry at 
this. He cried to his father for war, but his father was unwilling, 
