SOME FOLK-SONGS AND MYTHS FROM SAMOA. 283 
[Note.—A ‘ Sufi’ is a kind of song which gives an explanation of an- 
cient words. 
‘Losi and the War of the Giants. 
The subject of this ‘Sufi’ is the same as in the story of 
Tutuila.”’ | 
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. And Tui-a4i and Tui-a‘a, | 
. The thick ‘taro,’ and the water-side ‘taro,’ 
. And the spreading ‘taro,’ and the new plantation ‘taro,’ 
. And ‘taro’ both whole and sliced, with the squeezed ‘vi,’ 
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[Here is] a canoe-load of sufies; how many? [this is] one. 
The messengers thus address Losi— 
. Be quick [to catch] the evening tide; the dawn is near. 
Scrape your spear of the ‘asi’ wood ; 
With it to pierce for us (two) a fish—an ‘ali’; 
The ‘ali’ is our fish; the fish that goes up to the heavens. 
The narrator now speaks— 
It was the fish of Le-Moso and Fulu-fulu-Tolo, ] 
And Pava-uta and Pava-a-tai, 
And Fai-malie and Fai-tama‘t. 
Losi now speaks— 
You girls there come to the allotting of food— 
Refrain to verses I, - [X. 
And swamp ‘taro,’ and the black-branched ‘taro,’ with 
[the sweet ‘vaisalo’ dish. | 
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. A canoe-load of sufies ; how many ? the second. 
. Be quick to catch the evening tide ; the dawn is near. 
. Scrape your spear of ‘pua’ wood ; 
. With it to pierce for us a fish—an ‘ulua’; 
. The ‘ulua’ is our fish; the fish that goes up to the heavens. 
Add here the Refrain (lines 6 - 14). 
III. 
. A canoe-load of sufies; how many ? the third. 
. Be quick to catch the evening tide ; the dawn is near. 
. Scrape your spear of ‘nonu’ wood ; 
. With it to pierce for us a fish—a ‘nofu’; 
‘This,’ says Mr. Powell, “I got 
from an old man named Lau-afia, living at Fangali‘i, on the north side of 
