SOME FOLK-SONGS AND MYTHS FKOM SAMOA. 125 



Which means — 



There is a band of covetous ones going on ; 

 They have stolen my things ; 

 Let them bring them to me, as is proper to do ; 

 [If not, let my curse be upon them ; for] 

 They have stolen my images ; 

 Let them never get firm footing on land, 

 But let them perish at sea ! 

 (The parents died at Eurutu.) 



6. So they jumped into the sea and swam hither,, [i.e., to Tau in 

 Manu'a] ; and just as they arrived on the reef at the south side of Fiti- 

 uta, at a spot still called Lua-ma'a on the south-east side of Saua, Ui 

 gave birth to a male child. She cast it on to the shore, between two 

 stones, which are now named Ui and Lua-ma'a, for they two died there 

 on the beach. 



7. Tangaloa looked down from heaven, saw the child lying in that 

 condition, took compassion on it, and sent Tuli and Fuia, his representa- 

 tives, to look after it. He also sent the ' Miti ' (a bird) and the ' Unga * 

 (a kind of land crab); the Miti sucked the mucus from the child's mouth 

 and nose, and the TJnga divided the navel-string. Thus cared for and 

 adopted by the god Tangaloa, the child was called Tangaloa-a-Ui, i.e.,. 

 Tangaloa the son of Hi. He grew up and took to wife Sina-a-Sa'umani. 

 By her he had six children — (1) Ta'e-o-Tangaloa ; (2) 'O Le-Fanonga; (3) 

 ' O Lele ; (4) Asi-asi-o-Langi ; (5) Moe-u'u-le-apai, (a girl) , who became 

 the wife of Tui-Fiti, 'king of Fiji.' Her brother, Ta'e-o-Tangaloa, 

 dreamed that his sister was ill-used by her husband, Tui-Fiti, and hence 

 he undertook the voyage celebrated in another solo ; this he did in the 

 canoe of Tui-Afono, ' king of Af ono/ which is a village on the north side 

 of Tutuila, between Masefau and Vatia. The sixth child of Tangaloa-a- 

 Ui and Sina-a-Sa'umani was a girl named Sina-Tauata. 



The following is the poetic account of the effort of Ui and her 

 brother Lua-ma'a to bring to an end the offering of human sacri- 

 fices to the Sun. 



[Note. — Mr. Pratt recently handed the original text of this solo to a 

 Samoan native teacher, well acquainted with his own language, and asked 

 him to read it. On reading it through, the ' pundit ' exclaimed, " I seem 

 to have been reading a foreign language ; only the old men understand 

 these words." — Ed.] 



XVI. — Le Solo i le La. 



1 . It is [still] dark, [but] the day is dawning ; 



2. The woman Ui and Lua-ma'a 



