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Tulia’s cocoa-nut tree; this stands on the road to Hades and the ghosts 
dash their heads against it. Its leaves lie there undisturbed; for there 
is no tide there to sweep them away, nor are they gathered as fuel. 
Tulia, as a participle, means ‘driven’; they say that at the north-west 
corner of the island of Savai‘i there is a huge cocoa-nut tree, near the 
entrance to Hades there, and, when the ghosts of the departing are being 
driven along this way by the spirits, if any one of them strike against 
this tree, that dying man recovers. 
86. Tui-Pulotu; ‘prince of Hades’; Fafanga may be only another form 
of the word fafa, which means ‘ hell’ or Hades. 
87. Water; vai, ‘ fresh-water’; ‘trade wind,’ to‘elau. We do not know 
the meaning of the lines which are—87. O loo tui le vai soa, 0 loo lu- 
manaie le To‘elau. 88. Tau fa‘alupe lau laau, oi fea le tui o To‘elau ? 
But it is possible that ‘ the comrades’ are those that have been brought 
to life again by striking against ‘thy tree.’ 
90. Peculiar ; ‘faiga’; peculiar in this that they go tosleep, &e. This 
has happened ; for on one occasion, in Savai‘i, a band of men lay down to 
rest after a battle, and, while they slept, the enemy came on them and 
killed them all. 
91-94. Carrying the bier &c.; these doubtless were well known incidents 
in the history of Fiji, but we know nothing about them. 
99. Atafu; see line 68; also Myths No. II. and No. XV. 
101. Red-eyed; ‘mata-memea.’ This word also means the planet Mars. 
104. Standing place; tula, ‘a perch, a prop to stand on.’ For this and 
the ‘fetau’ tree and the ‘ pua,’ see Myths No. XV. and No. XVI. 
107-8. Shone upon; ‘sulu-ia’; as if ‘ be-torched,’ for sulu is a ‘torch. 
109. Lua-ma‘a; for him and Ui and their doings, see Myth No. XV. 
112. Vale-vale-noa; ‘ beautiful.” For Sioa and Maioa, see lines 177-8. 
116. Pola; this seems to be Bora-bora in Tahiti. 
120. Alight; tipa, ‘glide down.’ 
124. Fresh-water, far at sea; at Safotu on Savai‘i, in Samoa, when the 
tide is low, a spring of fresh-water bursts up on the reef half a mile out; 
on another very small island there is a lagoon of fresh-water. 
125. Prawn up; ‘utufia’; utu means ‘to draw up water from a lagoon 
or a well’; ‘to fill a bottle.’ 
131. Threadthem; ‘su‘i fa‘asolo’; the meaning is—Thread their names ~ 
together as beads on a String, without enumerating them separately. 
135. Fail; fano, ‘fade away to an end.’ 
139. Budge; alo, ‘to get out of the way of a superior.’ 
141. The ‘tafuti’ evidently has the habit of the flying-fish ; the ‘ pusi’ 
family are all of the ‘ muraena’ kind. 
145. Long house ; ‘a folau papata’; we have not translated papata; it 
may mean ‘lumpy.’ 2 
