370 J. FRASER. 
brought forth; it was not a man-child but a bird, the ‘Senga’; it 
sprang into the fresh water of the Heavenly Pool. Then they 
(two) gave it food ; in the evening they fed it before sleep ; in 
the morning they went early to feed it. They used to go witha 
tray, and cut up the ‘taro’ and bread-fruit and fish ; they placed 
[the food] on the tray when they went to feed the ‘Senga’; they 
laid it out on a raised heap of stones at the stream which sprang 
_ from a cave at the end of the pool. 
2. The bird was [soon] full-grown ; it sprang down ; it went 
about [on earth] below. [One day,| it stood in the boat-opening 
of Fiji; Tui-Fiti saw it, and desired it. He summoned the Fijians 
to assemble; so Fiji held a council. ‘ Who is a strong man that 
will get this bird for me’? Olo and Faua offered themselves. 
Tui-Fiti showed them [what to do]: ‘ You two will go by way of 
the north side’ [said he]. They went and found the road to the 
heavens ; they arrived there ; it was fire-light [time]. The family 
were talking [and said to them], ‘Have you two come”! ‘ Yes.’ 
“What is your errand’? ‘Is it true that there is a Senga sleep- 
ing there’? ‘Yes, the child of Ua and O, which is fed night and 
morning. ‘What isit fed on’? ‘It is fed on bread-fruit and taro 
and fish, placed on a tray.’ Just then the Senga came gliding 
down behind the cave [to be fed]. 
3. The family took their fish [to it]; but they two went off and 
hid ; and thus they saw [where] the tray of the family [was put]. 
The cooks crew [that is, morning was coming on], and they ran off 
with the tray. They placed it on the heap of stones at the pool, 
along with the things which they had prepared. The bird came 
gliding down [for ts morning food], and they at once seized it. 
Then they ran away with the Senga. They took it to Tui-Fiti. 
It remained with Tui-Fiti. - It was there at the time that Ta‘e 
Tangaloa visited his sister Moe-u‘u-le-Apai. He saw the Seng 
and desired it. And when the Fijians had gone inland [to work} 
he told Moe-u‘u-le-Apai that he desired it. Then Moe spoke 
Tui-Fiti, and he gave it to Ta‘e-o-Tangaloa. He came back to 
Manu‘a and placed it in Fiti-uta. 
