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Will wash it ; and with the fibre-strainer rub it clean. 



I'll rinse well the mouth, and chew ! 

 In a tava bowl, I'll mix it ; 

 And strain it out to cleanse it fully from the lees. 



This kava I'll now apportion ! 

 O Sun, if thou wilt feast, 



There's this fish, the 'ata'ata, [sacred to the gods,] 

 The fish that near the harbour waits ; 

 There's this fowl, a fowl of many broods, full-grown and plump ; 



Oh then ! on these now turn thy [longing] eyes ; 



For of this family, through thy feasting, none survives. 



The Sun approached ; he beheld a damsel well-attired, and beautiful in 

 person. He was smitten with her beauty and loved her. From that 

 time, the offering of human sacrifices to the Sun ceased. 



5. When the Sun promised Ui that he would require no more human 

 sacrifices, she went home with joy and reported her success. "I am not 

 devoured, you see ; the Sun said to me, — Sau ia, o le a ola le nu'u ; ua ifo 

 le aso o le La ; e le toe f aia, — ' Come here ; your land shall live ; the offer- 

 ing to the Sun shall terminate; it shall not be repeated/ " Her family 

 and the people generally rejoiced at the good news. But still her parents 

 felt anxious and distrustful, and they said, ' Come let us leave, and go 

 to some other land, lest the custom should be renewed, and we, as it will 

 be our turn, become the first victims/ Accordingly, Fiso and Ufileftin 

 a canoe, with Lua-ma f a, but Hi and Ala proceeded inland. When the 

 sisters had come to a district called Rurutu, and to a part of it where was 

 a boat-entrance in the reef, called Eutala, they saw on the beach two 

 idols. These belonged to a man named Li'i, or, as others say, to two 

 men named Nimoa'i and Lavea'i, who were sporting in the rollers. One 

 of the idols was a trumpet shell ('panea/ Triton tritonis), which was so 

 placed on the shore that when the men shouted from the sea, the shell 

 re-echoed the shout. Ui took up the idols and concealed them in her 

 bag. When the owners found that the echo had ceased, they suspected 

 the cause and gave chase to the thieves, but the theft was denied. The 

 incensed loosers uttered this imprecation on the thieves of their idols, 

 (o le lai ma le panea, ' the bird and the shell '): — 



Le au manumanu le o atu ; 



Ua la goai a'u mea ; 



Au mai, a oi onatau ; 



Ua la goai au tupua ; 



Nei mau matutu lava i gauta ; 



A e oti i le sami. 



O! 



