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FOLK-SONGS AND MYTHS FROM SAMOA, 381 
As Ta‘e had now no further need of the canoe, he dismissed the Tutui- 
lans with the assurance that he would enable them to get back to their 
own land in a few hours; but, if they wished to have prosperity and 
happiness, they were not to clear out the hold of their vessel till they 
were ashore; for the scales of the fish, and the skin and refuse of the 
‘taro,’ bread-fruit and cocoa-nuts that they had eaten would be of much 
valuetothem. Perversity and unbelief seem to be congenial to the mind 
of men everywhere, for, although the crew said ‘ Aye, aye, sir,’ to his in- 
junctions, the men were scarcely out of his sight than they threw the 
whole lot overboard. And Tui-Afono thus missed having the plenty and 
comfort which the fruitful growth of these things would have given him. 
Meanwhile, Ta‘e was moving about on Fiji in search of his sister; at 
last he found her; they fell on each other’s necks and wept. Next morn- 
ing he commenced to plant her land with everything good to eat, and 
while there was miraculous abundance there, Tui-Fiti and his people on 
the coast were still pinched with the famine and dying of hunger. In 
these circumstances, Moi resolved to return to her husband good for the 
evil she had received at his hands, and, taking a present of food with her, 
she went down to the coast, got the sick man to eat, and, as he was too 
weak to travel inland, she had him carried up next day to her home; all 
his people soon followed and settled inland there, and thus escaped the 
famine. Then Tangaloa returned to his own Manu‘a, and, in memory of 
his journey in search of his sister, he gave to a district in it the name of 
Fiti-uta, ‘inland Fiji,’ and that name remains till this day. 
The ‘ Tala.’ 
An account of the praises of the boy of Moi-ulu-le-Apai, the relation 
by the mother’s side of Ta‘e-o-Tangaloa ; an account of his going to Fiji. 
1. Probably Moi-u‘u-le-Apai went away [from home] at the 
time when her brother, Ta‘e-o-Tangaloa, married Le-lau-lau-a-le- 
Folasa and Sina, She travelled on and reached Fiji, and married 
the chief of Fiji, who was called Tui-Fiti. 
2. And so Moi, the daughter of Tangaloa-a-Ui, became the wife 
of Tui-Fiti ; and she brought forth a son and he was called Le- 
Ata‘ata-a-Fiti, There was a famine in Fiji at that time, and it 
= very great. Then the people said to Tui-Fiti, ‘ What do you 
think ¢ should we drive away the lady? for she is not a human 
being but a god ; because, since she came, we have constant famine; 
our food is gone.” Then she was sent away by the chief. — 
