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SOME FOLK-SONGS AND MYTHS FROM SAMOA. 289 
[At first] the Sa-Tangaloa were about to flee, 
But they rallied at the Malae-a-toto‘a. 
The speaker interrupts the narrative to say— 
But let us [first] strike up our own dance. 
The answer of the speaker is 
Drive, drive on. 
But now resumes— 
Sa-Tangaloa are about to break up the rally of the angry 
[Whence] the thunders are threatening. [ heavens, 
Mafui‘e goes towards it ; 
Then the heavens were raised aloft, and you fell. 
Drive, drive on. 
The speaker reverts to the origin of the war— 
I stood before the opening in the reef, 
With that spear of mine, the ‘ afa’ tree ; 
With it I pierced the bonito; that offering I left lying there— 
The fish that I left there as a snare, 
That gave no delight to the Sa-Tangaloa— 
[The fish] that were not put in a basket. 
[So] Tangaloa the talker got his head broken, 
And Tangaloa the vengeful was knocked down. 
O 8a-Tangaloa, cease to speak of getting the first kava [cup]. 
Tangaloa-sioa, cease to speak of getting the first kava [cup]. 
Tangaloa-maioa, cease to speak of getting the first kava [cup]. 
Tangaloa-lé-fuli, cease to speak of getting the first kava [cup]. 
Tangaloa-uatea, cease to speak of getting the first kava [cup]. 
Tangaloa-ua-o-po, cease to speak of getting the first kava[cup]. 
Stop that talk, for you are now in a bad [case]; 
The women have their heads broken, and so have the men. 
[Even] Masina cried out with pain, 
And a shout was raised on the tenth night. 
Kat your mouthfuls of food with your broken heads. 
The speaker winds up— 
And our spear is of a ‘futu’ tree ; 
We pierced with it the ‘tautu.’ 
S—Nov. 32, 1962. 
