SOME FOLK-SONGS AND MYTHS FKOM SAMOA. 109 



28. Rain fell and yet the sun was shining : 



29. Rain-in-sunshine came down : 



30. Pava was swept on by the swollen waters. 



31. [While] you come down, [O rain,] you know not 



32. Who is the man you will sweep away, 



33. Where it [the sun] shines, and the man will be carried to. 



34. [And why ? because] Pava is a bad man, 



35. He makes fun of men. 



Tangaloa speaks. 



36. "While you are all chewing the kava, [O Pava,] 



37. Warn and admonish 



38. And exhort your boys, 



39. Because Tangaloa's kava [is preparing] ": 



40. Tangaloa had said, " The boys make a noise "• 



41. But the boys were not forbidden. 



42. Tangaloa caught hold of the boy ; 



43. He struck him with the stem of the cocoa-nut leaf ; 



44. Each of them got his half of the boy ; [my kava." 



45. " That is yours, this is mine ; this will be food [to eat] with 



46. But Pava did not kill [his half] because of his love. 



47. Then Tangaloa took hold of the boy, joined him together, and 



he lived. 



48. O foolish companions of Sa'umani, [rain. 



49. [Because] the cloud was spread [there], you thought it would 



50. O Tuitalau of Sualoa, Malu of Tua-ma-Alo, 



51. And Taafanua of Maia, 



52. Sit round, sit in your circle ; 



53. Adjust, adjust [to proper size] the meshes of your net : 



54. Spread our your net on the branching leaves ; 



55. Now take up, take up your net ; 



56. You have not made your meshes for the fish of the deep, 



57. But you have made them the size for men — 



58. To catch Sina, the virgin princess, 



59. Who brought forth spirits brought forth men. 



O! 



