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aloa, the messenger ; and he made the Tongan group spring up ; 

 then that land sprang up. 



34. Then he turns his face to this Manu'a ; and looks up to the 

 heavens, for he is unable to move about; then Tangaloa, the 

 creator, and Tangaloa, the immoveable, looked down and caused 

 Savai'i to spring up ; then that land grew up. 



35. Then Tangaloa, the messenger, went back to the heavens, 

 and said — ' We have (now) got countries, the Eastern group and 

 the Fiji group, and the Tongan group, and Savai'i.' Then, as all 

 these lands were grown up, Tangaloa, the creator, went down in 

 a black cloud to look at the countries, and he delighted in them ; 

 and he said, 'It is good'; then he stood on the top of the mountains 

 to tread them down, that the land might be prepared for people 

 to dwell in. Then he returned [on high]. And Tangaloa, the 

 creator, said [to Tangaloa, the messenger], — ' Come now ; go back 

 by the road you came; take people to possess the Eastern groups; 

 take Atu and Sasa'e ; that is a pair ; they were called conjointly 

 Atu-Sasae ; these two people came from the heavens from among 

 the children of Tangaloa. 



36. Then Tangaloa, the messenger, went again to the Fiji 

 group ; he also again took two persons, a pair ; their names were 

 Atu and Fiji from among all the children of Tangaloa ; so that 

 group of islands was called Atu-Fiji. 



37. Then he turned his face towards Tonga ; he took [with 

 him] a couple ; their names were Atu and Tonga ; these two 

 peopled that group of islands ; their names were the Atu-Tonga ;. 

 these two were the people of Tangaloa. 



38. Then Tangaloa, the messenger, 'came back to this Manu'a,. 

 to Le-Fatu and Le-'Ele-'ele and their children ; because the com- 

 mand of Tangaloa, the creator, [had gone forth] from the heavens, 

 that Le-Fatu and Le-'Ele-'ele should go there to people this side 

 of the world. Then went out Valu'a and Ti'apa to people Savai'i; 

 these two are the children of Le-Fatu and Le-'Ele-'ele'; these two 

 people are from this Manu'a ; Savai'i and this Manu'a are one ;, 



R— December 2, 1891. 



