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stem and a bread-fruit branch, and, reaching the spot just as they were 
getting off, he hailed the canoe and said, ‘I want to go with you!’ Afono 
churlishly refused and pulled out of the harbour. Tangaloa hurried by 
land to two points which they had to pass in succession, and from each 
of them repeated his request, but thrice in all he had the same refusal 
‘The canoe now got out tosea; but Tangaloa, irritated by Afono’s repulses, 
called to his sea-boys (mermen, [ suppose) and ordered them to bring the 
vessel by force back to the rock where he stood; thrice this was done, but 
to no avail; for Afono still refused ; until his men expostulated with him 
on the danger they ran; then he yielded so far as to let one of them say 
to Tangaloa, ‘Come here.’ So Tangaloa jumped on board. 
But it did not suit him to let the canoe go on to Tutuila, for he wanted 
to get to Fiji; so he enveloped that island in thick darkness and made the 
light to shine clear upon Fiji in the far distance to the south-west. The 
crew passed Tutuila as if it were not there and continued heading onwards 
for many days. Food and water began to fail them. Hungry and thirsty, 
Afono and his men cried to their miracle-working passenger. He bade 
them look into the hold; there they found bread-fruit to eat, and young 
cocoa-nuts from which they got water to drink. The branches which 
Tangaloa carried in his hand when he leaped on board had been placed 
in the hold, and they had speedily grown there, and now they supplied 
food and drink to the weary crew! 
At last the canoe reached the Fijian shore, but here fresh dangers wer? 
before them. It was a charmed land, and three obstacles had to be over 
come by those who would enter there; first, outside on the reef was # 
snare called ‘ the coral-that-wrecks-canoes,’ probably something like the 
Symplegades rocks which of old so bothered the Argonauts when they 
essayed to sail between them; then inside there was a second danger 
in the shape of shoals of mullet which, by some magic influence, were 
made to leap on board with the intention of swamping the canoe; the 
as a last and inmost bulwark stood on a promontory Tui-Fiti himself, 
with his pointing finger, to lead astray and to destruction those who would. 
steer by his directions. From all these daugers Tangaloa, by his 
and foreknowledge, delivered Afono and the crew. At the last point, he 
"laid his mana or divine power on Tui-Fiti for punishment; for he had o"Y 
to point his finger upwards and the Fijian king fell prostrate and stu? 
and the whole land of Fiji was scorched with heat. From this incident 
it appears that he who possesses the mana is superivr to magic and p we : 
and thus the wickedness of the wicked only recoils with double force up? 4 
their own heads. : 
