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they had baled the canoe, and gathered up the refuse [to throw it 
away |; because if they had brought these things with them, that 
is, the scales of the fish and the skins of the ‘taro’ and of the 
bread-fruit, and the stems of the cocoa-nut, they all would have 
had great plenty. Therefore the people said, ‘Tui-Afono, you 
have made light of your good-fortune’; hence sprang the proverb, 
‘The good-fortune of Tui-Afono was made light of.’ 
14. But Tangaloa went on for the place where his sister was ; 
it was far off, far off inland. He reached [a house| about fire- 
light time, and went on early in the morning. When he got to 
the place, they were having a dance to the praises of Moi-u‘u-le- 
Apai and her son Le-ata-ata-o-Fiti ; thus :— 
1. “The fleet of Afono prepared to go a-fishing. 
2. Tangaloa stood up with food for the journey. 
3. The fleet of Afono prepared to go a-fishing; 
4. There was a search for Moi-u‘u-le-Apai ; 
5. The whole lands were covered over [with darkness]. 
6. The Sa-Tangaloa voyaged ; 
7. They voyaged and he stood up at the boat-opening ; 
8. [There were] the mullet and the coral-that-wreck-canoes. 
9. First the pointing of Tui-Fiti went down [7.¢., south]; 
10. Tangaloa paddled to larboard and so did the crew. 
11. [Then] the pointing of Tangaloa was upwards [7.¢., north] ; 
12. The whole of Fiti was scorched : 
13. The Samoan group was covered [i.¢., protected ].” 
They [brother and sister, | greeted each other and wept; he stayed 
there, for it was night. 
15. When the morning light dawned, Tangaloa said to Moi-u‘u- 
Je-Apai, ‘Shut down the flaps of your house; let me prepare and 
Plant your ground.’ Then he planted the land everywhere. 
Bread-fruit lived there, and cocoa-nut and papaw-apple, and 
banana, and taro, and yams ; everything grew abundantly. He 
kept on planting, and very great indeed was the quantity of food. 
They were free to use everything on the land ; only the bread- 
