250 JOHN FRASEK. 



Worshippers of Fortune ; cf. " Caesar and his fortune." The Eomans had 

 both a ' Deus Fortunus' and a 'Dea Fortuna/ 



Poiver over the fishes ; the islanders have many superstitious notions as 

 to success in fishing. 



Lust for the forbidden; " nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata." 



Par. 1. Branching -stone ; in the ' Story of Creation ' (No. XXX.), Papa- 

 'amu-'amu, ' the branching-coral-rock/ and his children, are among the 

 earliest of created things. 



Tui-Fiti; ' king of Fiji'; in all these tales, Fiji is to the Samoan mind 

 a far-off land of mystery, much in the same way as British tales speak 

 of ' China ' or the ' world's end/ 



Some present ; presents are given to the wife's family on the approach 

 of child-birth ; these are called fa'amau mandva. 



2. He went to his mother; ' the Sun is your father '; cf. the classic story of 

 Phaethon (= 'Alo-'alo) and father Sol. A similar disaster overtook both 

 of these youths. 



Fo and Ao ; see the ' Story of Creation/ par. 21. 



The eaves rest on the ground ; this doubtless means the clouds and mists 

 which sometimes come down on the earth and cover it. In the Hebrew 

 cosmogony, the clouds are over the earth, like a canopy or tent which may 

 be let down. 



{Foreign) articles of value; ' oloa/ 



3. Son of the Sun; the common Samoan word for 'son' is ataliH ; the 

 word here is alo, a chief's word ; the use of it indicates that by birth this 

 young man was a person of rank. 



4. Fishes and birds ; attracted by the potent charm of the hook, though 

 now submerged ; magic is superior to the powers of nature. 



Boat-harbour ; boat-opening ; a narrow passage through the encircling 

 reef, fit only for boats. 



Tautai va'a-alo ; ' tautai ' is a ' sailor-steersman,' and ' va'a' is a 'canoe/ 



His wife's name, &c; details of this kind are all-important in the eyes 

 of a Samoan. 



La-ulu ; this is a common Samoan name, ' branch of bread fruit/ 



Fau-mea, means ' to tie-together things'; the component parts of the 

 other names are : — a'au, ' reef '; iti, ' small '; tele, ' large '; mo'e, ' sleep '; 

 ulu, 'head'; galu, 'wave ; te'e, 'to be haughty, to reject, to resist'; alofa y 

 ' love/ 



Something ; i.e., tonga, 'property'; 'nothing' in par. 2 is 'no tonga/ 



Much pleased with the hook; 'na fiafia i le Manu/ 



5. Rats, mice ; folk-lore knows a good deal about them ; there is a 

 native rat (imoa) in the islands. 



Fastened wrongly; ' ua fau sala/ 



Need not be alarmed ; alili, ' take it easy '; ' there is no danger/ 



