116 JOHN FKASEK. 



11. Your boat was beached at Aleipata. 



12. [When you] spread out on the table the cold food of the kava, 



13. Ascribe [to Manu'a] the honour of the growth of the kava; 



14. Aleipata got its kava from it ; 



15. All Atua got its kava from it ; 



16. Spread abroad the pedigree of the kava ; 

 17 Tua-masanga got their kava from it ; 



18. A 'ana got their kava from it ; 



19. Spread abroad the pedigree of the kava ; 



20. Manono and Olo got their kava from it ; 



21. Spread abroad the pedigree of the kava ; 



22. Savai'i is a level country • it has no kava. 



23. O Fune and Fotu, [stores of kava ; 



24. You two contend in vain for [the honour of producing] your 



25. [For it was at] Fanga-fue the kava grew up. 



26. The fowl of Fuipau has its [deserved] praise ; 



27. It shakes the feathers of its wings, 



28. And turns to the trade winds. 



O! 



Notes to ' Solos' ix., x., xi., xii., xiii., xiv. 

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They have fish; cf. ' tala ia Sa ma Maim/ p. 74. 



Worm-progeny ; cf. ' le Solo o le Va/ line 56. 



Certain fishes ; cf. ' le Solo o le Va/ line 95. 



Love, peace and tranquility ; cf. ' le Solo o le Va/ lines 19, 105. 



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Sd-Tangaloa ; as usual, things on earth are, to the Polynesian, copies of 

 the heavenly things ; for, in Samoa, there are many families of chiefs who 

 "bear the name of Tangaloa ; c Sa ' is a common prefix to mean ' race of/ 

 'family of '; e.g., the name Sa-moa means the ' family of Moa/ The 

 Homeric kings also are e Dio-trephees/ 



Le-Mdna is the next in dignity to the supreme Tangaloa ; the Samoans 

 believe that he can work miracles ; for here the rain comes down at his 

 will. 



The eyes of Tangaloa-a-Ui ; this semi-divine Tangaloa too can do mar- 

 vellous things ; for he joins together the two severed portions of Pava's 

 boy, and makes him whole again ; the all searching eyes of the god also 

 can follow the guilty man for hundreds of miles ; and his stature exceeded 

 that of mortals. The Egyptian Osiris is the e many-eyed one/ 



