SOME FOLK-SONGS AND MYTHS FROM SAMOA. 293 
146. Vase is a fine kind of ‘ taro’; what this line and the next refer to, 
we do not know. 
150. Angry; to‘atamai, ‘chief’s anger.’ In Samoait is a grievous insult 
to a chief to omit his name from a list. 
151. Finished, complete; ‘ uma.’ 
157. Quiet; toto‘a. For Malae-a-toto‘a, see the ‘ Solo o le Va.’ 
161. Speaker; ‘to‘oto‘o’; lit., the official staff which the orator holds in 
his hand when he is making a speech; to hold that is equivalent to our 
English expression ‘ to be in possession of the chair.’ 
164. Threatening; the angry gods threaten an assault; but Mafui‘e, the 
giant of earthquakes encounters them, tosses up the heavens, and the 
$a-Tangaloa are thrown to the ground and thus discomfited. 
170. Lying there; a snare; these must refer to Losi’s trick in laying the 
fish at their doors. 
174-182. Tangaloa; tau-tala, ‘the talker’; mana-mana, ‘mindful’ in 
a bad sense; sioa, ‘languid’; watea, ‘rain in sunshine’; wa o po, ‘who 
went by night; le-fuli, ‘immoveable’; he should not be in this list, for 
he is one of the high gods; see the ‘Myth of Creation.’ 
183. Women, men; male and female among the Sa-Tangaloa, but ap- 
parently not among the high gods. Masina, ‘the moon,’ in the next line 
is a woman—and she is wounded. 
185. Tenth night; the Samoans have a special name for that—fa‘a-saga- 
fulu, lit., ‘ tenth.’ 
186. Eat &c.; this is spoken by the conquerors and is a terrible outrage 
to the vanquished. 
189. Feathers; alluding to Moso’s device to protect his comrades from 
the torrents of rain; raised, that is, when the rain ceased, the warriors 
came out and continued the pursuit of the Sa-Tangaloa. 
XXXIV.—THE History oF TANGALOA-A-UI, ALI‘A-MATUA, AND 
Aui‘a-TAMA, Kines oF MANv‘a. 
O 
Intropuction.—This history is given here more in detail than in Nos, 
XIX., XX., XXI., and differently in some respects. From a comparison 
of this version with those three previously given, the reader may be able 
to select the common features which seem to be historically true. It is 
certain that the Rarotongans trace their ancestry to the Manu‘a group, 
and their kings to this Ali‘a family; see No. XIX. 
[Norr.— Under date 6 Feb., 1871, Mr. Powell’s MS. have this entry :— 
“I received to-day the following particulars from Taua-nu‘u, tradition 
keeper, which modifies the account which I received from Fofo. This of 
Taua-nu‘u seems the more consecutive.”’ | 
