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33. Gro to Lua-le-manga ; 



34. Prepare, wake up, [look alive]; 



35. Take this fly-hook, 



36. To pull up a fish, a malau-tea ; 



37. This is the cold food for that kava ; 



38. Pull up a piece of the best kava ; 



39. Say to the young men 



40. That they spread out cold food for the best kava. 



41. Tell your child 



42. To come this way with the cold food of the kava. 



43. Bring it with the taro that has been warmed again, 



44. With the ulatai which is famed. 



45. Let us eat this kava. 



46. Then asked Lua-le-manga, 



47. Whence came this kava ? 



48. It is the kava from the eastern group ; 



49. That was the kava that came down from the heavens. 



50. Saua is that land towards the east ; 



51. The kava [plant] was brought and distributed 



52. To our Samoan group which is one. 



O! 



XIL— <0 GUfa o <Ava (I)— A Solo. 

 'The Pedigree of the Kava. 7 



1. The Sa-Tangaloa held a council in the heavens ; 



2. Le-Fanonga spoke at it [when he ought not]; 



3. The Sa-Tangaloa grumbled 



4. That the council's well-known privileges were trampled on. 



5. Fanonga caused them to desire a kava that they knew of. 



6. [To get at it], he beat down its [thick] stem [and branches]; 



7. Then he bruised the root ; 



8. He made a handle of it [to pull it up] ; 



9. He twisted it over ; 

 10. He pulled it up ; 



