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likewise. Then came the pointing of Tangaloa ; and Tui-Fiti fell 
prostrate and was stunned. Then the Fijians directed their 
attention to their chief and gave no heed to the boat ; they did 
not stand and look towards it. 
11. Tangaloa at once jumped ashore and placed the canoe on 
the supports there; the Fijian supports were at once broken; and 
now [the crew] turned the canoe seaward and went away. Hence 
is the song about the voyage of Tangaloa, thus :— 
“The fleet of Afono prepared to go a-fishing. 
Tangaloa stood up with the food for the journey. 
The ‘tusi’ of Fiti pointed down ; 
Tangaloa paddled on the larboard ; 
[The canoe] swerved with its crew and went too far; 
The ‘tusi’ of Tangaloa pointed up ; 
All Fiti was swamped by that.” 
12. Then he said, ‘Now, you Tutuilans here, you will reach 
land in this very hour ; you will not sleep [another night] on the 
deep; don’t bale out your canoe; don’t remove the refuse from it} 
you Tutuilans here, drag up the canoe at once and its cargo; bale 
out the canoe for the first time when you reach the land.’ They 
answered, ‘ Aye, aye; let it be so.’ He said also to them, ‘There 
is great happiness in store for you, if ye do these things ; for that 
[refuse] will produce fruit greatly—bread-fruit and cocoa-nut— 
and fish will grow also from the scales.’ But they did not obey; 
for they baled out the canoe and threw out the refuse at the back 
of the breakers. Thus their happiness was wasted. Hence the 
proverbial saying, ‘They have despised the good fortune of Tut 
Afono.’ 
13. Then they speedily arrived at Tutuila. They were near 
the land ; the surf was behind them; they rejoiced that they had 
come so quickly, But they had baled out the hold and collected 
the refuse and thrown it into the sea, before they beached the 
boat. Then they reported to the people of Afono all the tale of the 
journey, and the great usefulness of the food of Tangaloa, and the 
final injunctions of Tangaloa ; and how they were grieved because 
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