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greatest were these—Tui-laga-ua, Tui-le-i‘ite, ‘Prince-the-prophet,’ 
Tui-tele-vave, ‘ Prince-great-in-quickness,’ Tui-lulu‘u, ‘ the Prince- 
with-the-water-of-sprinkling,’ Tui-mua-i-‘ava, ‘the-Prince-that-first- 
receives-the-kava.’ Hach one of all the visiting men was good for 
something; but there was no use for ‘Big’ (Tele), the chief ; only 
for eating was he useful; hence his by-name, ‘ Great-in-eating ’ 
(Tele-i-‘ai). 
Nores to No. XXXII. 
Par. 1. Expedition ; malaga, ‘a travelling party’; for variety I have 
translated this word as ‘expedition,’ ‘ visitors,’ ‘our party’; but in all 
parts of the tale it is the same word, ‘ malaga.’ 
Men; these are the giants who made the expedition to the heavens 
against the Sa-Tagaloa, ‘ the family of Tangaloa,’ the supreme god. The 
meanings of their names are—Moso-a-le-alofi, ‘ Moso-of-the-circle-of- 
chiefs,’ Lau-tolo, ‘leaf-of-sugar-cane,’ Tele, ‘big’ or ‘large,’ Losi, ‘emu- 
lation,’ ‘ jealousy,’ (see his story No. XXXI.); Ti‘e-ti‘e, ‘ perching upon,’ 
(see his story No. VIII.); Fai-malie, ‘making pleasant,’ Fai-tama‘i, 
*‘ making good fortune’; Tui, ‘a prince.’ 
Got up; uiai. Fau is the ‘hibiscus’ tree. 
Aleipata; a place in Tutuila; Sangana is another place there. 
2. Determined ; ‘ pulea,’ to make a decree of death; hence, to plot de- 
struction. 
Don’t let our party &c.; ‘aua le talanoa vale lo tatou malaga’; ‘ talanoa 
vale’ means, to‘ chat together foolishly,’ ‘to engage in idle chatter.’ This 
formula of words comes up again and again in the story. By this, Tui 
enjoins his comrades not to let their plans be known. Tui, who is the 
directing genius of his party, means to countermine every plot of the Sa- 
Tangaloa; just as Jack the Giant-killer always outwits the giant. 
Offering of food; ‘taalolo,’ see Note XXXI., 2; taalolo means ‘the 
taking of food to visitors by several villages at once.’ 
Court of sports; ‘malae i le taalo’; that is the open spaces where the 
Sa-Tangaloa were to hold their sports. The giants are to place a supply 
of food for themselves in reserve there, because the offering to be brought 
by the Sa-Tangaloa was intended as a snare. 
Went round &c.; ‘taamilo lana to’; to means ‘to plant,’ ‘ to separate,’ 
“to come upon as a calamity.’ The to, used as a noun, must mean here 
the food that was intended to do them harm ; and Tui ‘ went round’ it 
(taamilo) to indicate their acceptance and separation of it as a gift. 
Ate up all; this exhibition of power and voracity was enough to cause 
atu-atu-vale, ‘great distress of mind ; atu, ‘to be perplexed,’ atu-atu (plural) 
is intensive, and vale, ‘foolish,’ is also used as an intensive. 
