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SOME FOLK-SONGS AND MYTHS FROM SAMOA. 287 
Fiji is carrying the bier; why groan, Luuluu and prickly Fiji? 
Fiji, [you are] a funny land, your road lies through smoke; 
[For] the bananas were baked with the man; the bananas 
[were cooked, but the man was alive. 
Beautiful Fiji groaned at it; for Sa-fulu-sou was delivered up. 
Far off Tonga turns its face to it— 
A group of lands—and my group of Sapai. 
My group of lands is next— 
Atafu-‘uli, Atafu-mea ; 
Atafu is the land which has no houses ; 
It rains on them there and yet they sleep. 
The ‘fetau’ tree and the red-eyed [wood] 
Go down to the land of Savea. 
Lua-a is that land, the land of the sun. 
Under the ‘pua’ tree is the standing place of the sun. 
And the land of Sisia-le-fafa, 
And the land of Alo-alo-o-le-La— 
[The one is] the land that is shone upon by the sun, 
[The other is] the land that is not shone upon by the sun. 
There lived Lua-ui and Lua-maa, the children of Lu-fainga, 
Who broke down the daily sacrifice to the Sun. 
There is the land of Sioa, 
And the land of Vale-vale-noa, 
And the land of Tupu-sao-noa. 
Sioa is the land of Sioa ; Maioa is the land of Maioa; 
There are the lands of Pola-taia, Pola-saia, 
Pola-suena, Pola-piitia; but as to Pola-ta-olo-valu 
And Fatu-ta, they are lands that are not watered. _[bird, 
Tapataia is the land of the ‘pua’ tree, the land of the ‘ velota’ 
And the land of many birds ; 
Towards the sea is the beach on which they alight ; 
Inland is the beach round which they wheel ; 
Towards the east is the land of Sina ; 
Towards the sea is the land of fish. 
Far at sea is the fresh water of Malai; 
