118 JOHN FRASER. 



That's for you ; doubtless these are the inferior gods to whom not 

 much respect is shown. 



Hidden away ; see No. IX., line 10. 



Bird ofFuipau ; while the sea currents may convey hard seeds and nuts, 

 they would destroy the fertility of the slender kava roots, and so the 

 myth requires a bird to carry the kava plant. 



Tangaloa ; cf. 'le Solo o le Va/ note 3. 



Page 104. 



Saua ; the verb ' saua ' means ' to over-spread/ ' to over-run, as with 

 visitors. 5 



Page 106. 



You two are come, &c. ; a chief is addressed as ' you two,' — a sort of 

 dual of majesty, for he is supposed never to be without an attendant ; to 

 ask a stranger where he comes from is no impertinence in Samoa. The 

 whole expression here is a common form of welcome. 



Ta'e-o-Tangaloa ; 'ta'e' is the same word as 'kake/ stercus. 



Heavy rain ; the Samoans dislike rain, and rush off to shelter them- 

 selves even from a passing shower, much to the amusement of white 

 men ; the rain-drops, falling on their naked bodies, have a chilling effect 

 and this, in a climate like theirs, causes discomfort. 



Taro-leaf cap ; ' le pulou lautalo.' 



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 Head-quarters ; ' tulafale/ ' the head of a family/ ' a ruler of a village/ 

 La'a-mao-mao ; ' a piece of rainbow'; from ' la'a' ' to step over' and 

 mao, ' to be far off/ If the men of the little island of Manono see a la'a- 

 mao-mao, they will not go to war. 



Owl ; black heron ; this throws some light on the origin of totemism. 



Solo IX. 



Line 1. You two. Tangaloa thus speaks to his attendants ; cf. line 8. 

 The Polynesian dialects have dual forms of the pronouns. 



4. A manini ; the name of this fish is incorporated in a proverb which 

 means ( You are reaping the fruit of your doings.' 



7. Cold food ; that is called ' fono' and is eaten with the kava. In the 

 solos, the expression used is se e ava e fono a'i, ' some kava to fono with/ 

 . 11 — 14. Pull up, &c; these are all preliminary processes. 



18. Malae ; this means f council-ground ' — the open spot in or near a 

 village, where the natives assemble for deliberation or other business ; 

 the word is often used as a part of a village name. 



19. Sdud-e-'ava, ' overspread with the kava plant.' 



24. Heavy rain ; in the text the rain is personified as 'Uao' from ua, 'to 

 rain'; line 29, rain-in-sunshine, 'Ua-tea'; this was the wonder; there 

 was no black rain-cloud, and yet it rained ; the epithet tea in some Poly- 

 nesian dialects means ' bright, clear '; cf. the story of Atea, p. 76. 



