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let us two make an agreement to fight to-morrow.' Then he went 

 and made his oven ; when he uncovered it, Mafui'e shook the 

 earth, but nothing fell. 25 Then Talanga said, 'Let us go up.' The 

 boy replied, 'You go on ahead, I will come up to-morrow.' The 

 father did not know that Mafui'e and he were about to fight. 

 Talanga went up and Ti'i-ti'i went to Sa-le-Fe'e. 



On the morrow he came back with the girl that Mafui'e con- 

 stantly visited. Mafui'e said to him, 'Shall we fight 26 first, or 

 box, or take hold of one another'?' Ti'i-ti'i replied, ' You want 

 to do women's work, fighting and boxing, and shirk the wrestling.' 

 So he went and caught him, wrestled, and threw him, broke his 

 arm ; caught him again, broke his leg. 2 7 One leg and one arm 

 were broken. Then Mafui'e shouted, ' Let me live, lest you get 

 no signs ; leave this leg for me, that I may work for you and make 

 offerings of food to you ; and leave this hand to make signs for 

 you ; and you may come and take up the fire.' Then he left him 

 and Mafui'e gave the signs 2 8 thus : — 



If there is an earthquake at noon, that is a sign for war ; 



If there is an earthquake at night, that is for famine ; 



If there is an earthquake in the morning, that is for a storm. 



'And I will make offerings 29 to you in your country ; I am your 



conquered servant.' 



Then Ti'i-ti'i went up above, and with the firebrand he struck 

 the different trees ; then he took it by the end and threw it to 

 Fiji 3 ° and the Atafu 3 1 group and to Niue; there is a mark on the 

 places where the firebrand fell. 



This is how they first got fire 3 2 to cook food ; they also got fire- 

 wood and the wood to get fire from 3 3 by rubbing. He beat many 

 trees 34 with the firebrand, — the l fau,' 35 the i fua-faa^ the 'raa'o,' 

 the ' tamanu,' and others. 



In due time Mafui'e came up with his offering of cooked taro 

 and other things. The land to which he came with his offering 

 was called Sa-amo, 3 6 that is, the shoulder-stick of the offering, on 

 which he carried it up. He begged of Ti'i-ti'i, if Ti'i-ti'i had any 

 love for him, to shut up the road so that people might not go up 



