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SOME FOLK-SONGS AND MYTHS FROM SAMOA. 285 
The ‘atu’ is our fish; the fish that goes up to the heavens. 
Add here the Refrain (lines 6 - 14). 
IDG 
A canoe-load of sufies ; how many? the ninth. 
Be quick to catch the evening tide; the dawn is near. 
Scrape your spear of ‘ola-sina’ wood ; 
With it pierce for us a fish—an ‘uisila’; 
The ‘uisila’ is our fish; the fish that goes up to the heavens. 
Add here the Refrain (lines 6 - 14). 
Losi’s two fishermen go out to fish— 
Shaking the rattle, darting the spear, Fangaena and Matamuti‘e 
Pole their canoes to the extreme corner of the north, and the 
[land of the sun ; 
That is Niué; it is far to the east ; 
[And so] Nivé has much daylight. 
Losi addresses his attendants— 
Sweep together the red mullet and carry them into the house; 
And put them in a basket as my offering to the Sun. 
Catch hold of the fish and prepare the fire ; 
Broil them tied up ; the fire stands [ready] there. 
The reciter now addresses Losi— 
Tell us, [O Losi,| where did [these fishes] grow up 
For the basket and the net ; where did they come from? 
Losi, in reply, enumerates the islands of his domain— 
From the islands of Ofu and Olosenga, from Tutuila, 
From the small freshwater lands, and Manu‘a,and Fanua-tapu; 
From my group of Sapai and Tonga and Niua and Tafasi, 
And beautiful Fiji, and black Atafu, and reddish-brown Atafu ; 
Manu‘a and Papatea are seen 
And the island of Nu‘u is going to float, and foreign lands ; 
The reciter speaks again— 
Losi and Mau and Tui hurry on the ‘sufi,’ 
And Ti‘e-ti‘e-a-Talanga and Fai-malie and Fai-tama‘i ; 
To them belongs the ‘sufi,’ who went up to the heavens. 
