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26. But let us have our first feast 



27. On a pig that ran about at large inland. 



28. Go up [inland] and get it ; 



29. Take out the two lumps of lard 



30. And the liver ; squeeze them out [for cooking]. 



31. Friend, when you have got your feast [ready], 



32. Lay it out as on a tray ; lay it out 



33. Close to the seat of Malietoa-fe'ai. 



34. Friend, walk gently hither ; 



35. I am exhausted with hunger. 

 Tui says — 



36. O chief, do you sit still and rest, 



37. Till I uncover the prepared viands; 



38. Then you will eat of them. 



39. Malietoa ate, continued to eat 



40. Well pleased, and he said, 



41. 'Friend, this is the very best of feast days, 



42. [For] I have eaten good food [to-day]. 



43. Friend, tear off the skin of the dish you two [prepared], 



44. Lo ! a dry cocoa-nut leaf is on the outside, 



45. And a green cocoa-nut leaf is on the inside ; 



46. Tui's eyes are shining. 

 Malietoa says — 



47. ' Friend, come now, since you have done so well, 



48. Let those to the east live, let those to the west live ; 



49. And if you have any number of followers, you will so arrange 



50. That your feast-offering shall not become a burden.' 



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Notes to No. XVIII. 



Line 1. A Fale-alili man; he would listen with interest to this song, 

 for the heroes of it, Tui and Vaea, were from that district of TJpolu. 



S. Our lives; i.e., this is an account of the way in which human sacri- 

 fices ceased there long- long ago, and how ' the lives ' (line 3) of the in- 

 habitants were thus spared. 



4. Fa'a-vavau means * everlasting ' and appears to be a by-name of the 

 brother, Vaea, because the people's gratitude held him in everlasting 



