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his sister, Moi-u‘u-le-Apai; and the time of the story is again the grey 
dawn of Samoan history, when T'a‘e was the first king. Ta‘e was a 
bigamist ; he had two wives at once, and they seem to have made the 
family home so uncomfortable to poor Moi that she fled from it, and, 
committing herself to the deep, she at last reached Fiji; here her charms 
as a brunette captivated Tui-Fiti and he married her. To this hour the 
Fijian princes like to marry brown Polynesian women, and, the Tongan 
group being nearest to them, they get wives fromit. But in these myths 
Tonga is of no account ; it is Samoa only that has intimate relations with 
Fijii—a black race with a brown one. But this foreign lady was not ac- 
ceptable to the subjects of Tui-Fiti; for, had her presence not brought on 
that land this sore dearth of food from which they now suffered so much! 
And so, in heathen lands, it is the stranger among them who is accused 
of bringing the destructive epidemic, and he must be driven away that 
it may be stayed. Some philologists say that the Latin word hostis, 
‘enemy,’ originally meant only ‘a stranger,’—truly a striking glimpse 
of the philanthropy of the time when every stranger was reckoned an 
enemy. So poor Moi was again a wanderer ; for the king of Fiji had to 
send her away to satisfy the clamours of his people. And yet, when she 
Was gone, the famine still remained. We see her tramping on inland 
towards the high mountain ranges of the island, carrying her own little 
boy on her back, and leading by the hand Tui’s sister’s son, an adopted 
child. At last they reached a spot where they thought to rest; they sat 
down and wished for a house, when, lo! at the wish, a band of artificers, 
‘tufunga,’ came down and built a house for them, sent for that purpose 
by the great god Tangaloa, her ancestor, who hears all the wishes of his 
own people. But he did yet more for her. Dwelling in that forest, how 
was she to get food? The family of Tangaloa in the heavens consulted 
together, and Ufi, ‘a yam,’ offered to go down and plant herself around 
the house, and bear fruit. Next morning, the exiled queen saw the yam, 
dug up a branch, took it into the house, roasted it and ate thereof, she 
and her two children; thus they did for many, days—all through the 
beneficence of the great god. 
Meanwhile her brother Ta‘e-o-Tangaloa in Manu‘a had dreamed a dream, 
also sent by the supreme god of the Polynesians—does not Homer also say 
that dreams come from Zeus? kal yap 7 évap ix Alos éstwv—and by it 
he knew that his sister in that far off land of Fiji was in distress. He 
ag at once go to her help. A canoe belonging to a neighbour of his, 
neo was about to start for Tutuila, with four oarsmen and Afono 
self the fifth on board as steersman. Knowing what he meant to do, 
was he not semi-divine ?) he took in his hand a stripped cocoa-nut 
