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Mr. Powell's Summary. — 2. Tupu-ai-vao was another person to 

 whom human sacrifices were offered, but Fua-lau of Fale-alili informs me 

 that ' Malie-toa-the-fierce ' and he were two different persons. Malie-toa 

 lived ' far far back/ but Tupu only about ten generations ago ; he daily- 

 feasted on human flesh, like the king of Fiji. The story runs thus : — 



3. Malietoa-fe'ai was very oppressive; he had his man-eating day; 

 men were brought to him as food. The people of the west had all been 

 eaten up. A man of Sale-sa-tele, whose name was Tui, guessed that he 

 would soon come to Fale-alili. Then he and his brother, Vaea, made a 

 plan to put an end to his having a man-eating day. 



4. There was inland a pig that came there through the marriage of 

 their sister to Atu-u f u of Siumu. They baked the head of the pig ; then 

 they hung it up at a place where the king passed along. He looked at 

 it, and then desired it. A council of the people was held on one of the 

 days when the offering to the king should be made ; then Tui and Vaea 

 proposed that they should be the first to provide the feast. The king 

 said to them two, * Of what use is your offering ; let a tray be set right 

 below my seat, and let it be placed before me/ Then these two said to 

 the people, ' Let the pig be prepared, and let the two lumps of lard and 

 the liver be rubbed down together/ The chief kept on asking for the 

 offering, but Tui said, ' Do you first eat the made-dish that is prepared/ 

 The chief wrongly thought that it was part of the offering, but it was 

 only the lard and liver of the pig. The king was pleased and said, 

 'Friend, this is the first day that I have eaten good food; but go and 

 skin your offering of to-day/ Then they two went and Tui deliberated; 

 the green cocoa-nut leaf was nearest to the body, but the dry cocoa-nut 

 leaf was on the outside. He brought it and placed it before the king. 

 He tore away the dry cocoa-nut leaf. The king looked down upon it, 

 and the eyes of Tui shone. Then he said, ' Let this be the end of the 

 man-eating days ; let the east and the west now live, since you have 

 found so good a substitute for human flesh/ Ever since there has been 

 no man-eating day. 



Notes to No. XVII. 



Par. 2. Tupu-ai-vao is the * king from the bush.' Malie-toa is the 

 'agreeable cock ' or warrior. 



3. Man-eating day or offering ; ' aso '; q.v., as above, p. 127. 

 Fale-alili a district in the island of TJpolu. 



4. Pig; the usual present to the bride's family at a marriage. 



Shin ; the aborigines of Northern Queensland also skin a human body 

 at their cannibal feasts. 



King ; ' tupu,' a high chief ; tray ; ' laoai.' 



Made-dish; ' ofu,' native food, tied up in a leaf, ready to be cooked. 

 The ' tupu' thought it was part of the 'aso/ and enjoyed it much. 



I— Ootober 7, 1891. 



