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replied, ‘Don’t; but let them live.” Then Malietoa said, “Leave 
them to be my barbers and my priests.” 
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XXXVI.—TueE ‘Seneca ’—A ‘ Solo.’ 
Folasa came from Anga‘e ; 
He was invited by Foisia to call in— 
“Call in and signify your royal will 
And report it to Pili-tafao, 
Because I wish to be directed” [what to do]. 
The two guests [enter and] are pillowed on the threshold. 
[Now by their power] the Senga that was borrowed is coming 
The Senga that was so famed is coming. [down ]— 
. The Senga wandered to the heights of Atua ; 
. The Senga wandered to Tuamasanga ; 
. The Senga comes down and perches on the cocoa-nut tree ; 
. The Senga comes down and perches on the house’s ridge pole; 
. The Senga comes down and perches on the house’s upper beams; 
- The Senga comes down and perches on the middle beams ; 
- The Senga comes down and perches on the lower beams; 
- The Senga comes down and perches on lowest tier of thatch; 
- The Senga is about to alight. 
- “O Malietoa, there is thy Senga [says Le-Folasa]; 
- Let it suffice to turn aside thy wrath, 
- And let these sacred priests live, 
- And let the rain, the showers, and the sun still come on them,” 
- He unloosed the priests that were bound ; 
. The priests lived through Tangaloa 
- From the wrath of Malietoa. 
- “Change them [said he] into a band of barbers and house-priests 
- To shave off your offensive [hair] and cut your beard.” 
- O Savai‘i and Atua and A‘ana and Tuamasanga, 
- You had Folasa afterwards ; I was first, I was first. 
QO! 
XXX VII.—Tue ‘Senca’—A ‘ Solo.’ 
* Va and O were princes of the Sa-Tui-Atua. 
