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now bore fruit. They brought it out and ate; for there was a 
cooking place in the canoe. Then the crew murmured for water. 
Tui-Afono again called out, ‘There is plenty of food; but this 
crew is dying of thirst and there is no water.’ Then Tangaloa 
bade them examine the port side of the hold. And when they 
exaniined, the cocoa-nut stem had fruited ; it bore fruit well, 
both the young cocoa-nut and the full-grown nut. 
9. The canoe continued its course and reached Fiji; it reached 
the back of the surf in Fiji. Then Tangaloa told them of the 
might of Tui-Fiti. Tangaloa gave them his final instructions. 
But he first said to the crew, ‘In this land are the spirit-gods called 
the ‘ Wrecking Coral,’ and the ‘Leaping Mullet,’ and the ‘Fiti’s 
Finger ; that is the pointing-hand that makes canoes to err and 
be broken, and the men die, but they do not altogether die; they 
only lie stretched out ; this implies the divine power of Tui-Fiti, 
that a canoe should come safely to land,’ Then Tangaloa madea 
last command, ‘When we reach the boat-opening and I say, ‘Pull 
lustily,” see that you obey me at once ; for there, in the boat- 
Opening, is the mullet that leaps, the ‘anae-oso’; when you see 
that you have enough of [them for] food, do you bid me cover up 
the hold, because of the pointing of Tui-Fiti; when you see me 
paddling on the right side, do you paddle also on the right-hand 
side ; when you see me paddling on the port side, do you also 
paddle on the same side ; do you paddle as I do; thus will ye 
paddle.’ 
10. So then the canoe entered the opening in the Fiji [reef]. 
Tangaloa stood on the half-deck and called, ‘ Paddle the canoe.’ 
They pulled stoutly ; the coral reef {that is the dreaded Panga- 
Solo-va‘a| was at once pierced and broken through, and the canoe 
Went through the middle of the opening. Then the ‘anae-oso’ 
fishes jumped up and the canoe was nearly swamped. The crew 
shouted, ‘Tangaloa, cover the hold.’ Then the mullet jumped up 
[on deck] and wriggled about, and fell back into the sea. ‘They 
Went on, but there they saw the pointing [finger] of Tui-Fiti. 
“nen Tangaloa paddled on the port side and all the crew paddled 
Y—Oct. 2, 1895, 
