290 JOHN FRASER. 
189. [Moso’s] feathers were raised, 
190. And then the pursuit of the people went on. 
191. Drive, drive on. 
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Notts To No. XX XIII. 
1. Canoe load; the ‘sufies* are so numerous that they are here called 
poetically tautaga, ‘ a canoe-load.’ 
2. Be quick; the two girl-messengers thus address Losi and bid him 
make haste, for the space between nightfall and dawn is the best time for 
fishing; and perhaps they must ascend before daybreak. 
3. Scrape; ‘ valu-valusia’; scrape, that is, get ready for use. 
3, 4,5. Asiwood &c.; the nine sufies mention the different kinds of wood 
used for fish spears, and the different kinds of fish caught for the two 
girls to take up to the heavens with them. | 
6-9. Le-Moso &c.; these are some of the giants who engaged in the 
war. Tolo means ‘sugar-cane’ and fulu-fulu is a plural form meaning 
‘hairy’; Tui-a‘i is the ‘prince of eating’ or ‘ of eaters’; Tui-a‘a, is the 
‘prince of the family.’ The other names are explained elsewhere. 
10. Allotting of food ; lagi, ‘to call out the different portions of food 
and the person for whom each is intended. 
11-14. The thick ‘taro’ &c.; the ‘taro’ root is much used as food in 
the South Seas; it is cooked and eaten with the fish. The good kinds of 
« taro’ are enumerated in the lines thus :—11. Talo-tua-tua; talo auvai. 
12. O talo pasai, ma talo malai. 13. O talo tetele, ma malepe-lepe. 14. 
Talo fusi, maga-uli; vaisalo magalo. The ‘ vi’ isa much esteemed fruit 
like a plum; the outer skin has to be gape, ‘ broken’ or squeezed off. 
55. Shaking the rattle fc.; ‘o iulutu, o vevelo.’ Losi sends off his two 
attendants, Fangaena and Mata-muti‘e, to catch the fish; they shake a 
rattle to attract the fish and then they spear them. 
56. The north; here expressed by Lua-o, Lua-vai, who are the regents 
of the north; see the ‘ Myth of Creation, No. XXX. 
57. The east; here expressed by ‘ the land of the Sun,’ and further ex- 
plained to be Niue, which cannot be the island now known by that name, 
but some other far to the east. 
58. Daylight; the word here is ‘ao-ao,’ which seems to me to be an in- 
tensive form of ao, ‘ daylight.’ The line is—‘ Niué ua tau ao-ao.’ 
59 - 62. Sweep together; I take these lines to describe Losi’s own pro- 
pitiatory offering to the Sun, and so the fish here are mullet and ofa 
red colour, ‘ aua ula.’ 
60. And put them, c.; this seems to be the meaning of this line— 
‘Ma faotaga ma‘u monotaga ia le La.’ Is ‘faotaga’=faa‘atoga, ? 
