EARLY SAMOAN VOYAGES AND SETTLEMENT. 
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they had drifted had been mostly peopled many generations before by 
colonies from Samoa, their own countrymen. These had colonised 
Rarotonga under three adventurous leaders, Tangria, of Upolu, 
Makea, of Man u’ a, and Jro, of Savai’i. The descendants of these early 
Samoan colonists and voyagers treated their unexpected visitors with 
kindness and help, thus enabling them to settle comfortably in the 
land to which they had come ; the newcomers naming a variety of 
places and objects in their allotted district after similar ones in A’ana* 
or Upolu, from whence they had come. Years rolled on, and at 
length a descendant of this banished chieftain and deposed Tui-Aana, 
named Malie, came to Samoa as a native teacher and evangelist, and 
especially charged by his family in Rarotonga to inquire into the 
particulars relative to the banishment of their ancestor. I had the 
pleasure of hearing from him the foregoing narrative, and of recording' 
the details. I was interested in noticing the pleasure manifested by 
Malie on finding that there were places in A’ana, &c., corresponding 
to those he mentioned as having been named in Rarotonga bv the 
banished chieftain and his party. A t the time T met Malie, in 1842, 
I was visiting Palauli, on Savai’i, ajid had with me as travelling 
companions several A’ana chiefs and leading men of the district. The 
tradition of a Tui-A'ana having been deposed and banished was well 
remembered by them ; but they knew nothing whatever of the fate of 
this particular banished chief and his party, who were commonly 
supposed to have been driven off the island during the night, and 
perished in the Moanct uli , or the deep blue sea. 
Trading and Fishing Voyages. 
Apart from these long and difficult voyages which the Samoans 
were accustomed to make in the distant past, they also in bygone 
years made frequent voyages to groups around for trading or pleasure — 
Tonga, Fiji, Atafu (Duke of York’s Island), and other lands to the 
north, north-east, and north-west being frequently visited ; return 
visits being made to Samoa from these groups, especially from Tonga 
and Fiji. Of late years these trading voyages have ceased, apparently 
since a more settled and frequent intercourse with Europeans has 
arisen, and also since the disuse of the vaatele , or great canoe, which 
differed materially from the small double canoe, the alia , at times 
now used. This is indeed a copy of the Tonga double canoe. The 
alia is formed by lashing two canoes of nearly equal length together 
by stout crosspieces, which are securely fastened into the gunwales, 
and upon this stage in the centre of the canoe a thatched shed is 
placed for the accommodation of the crew. In the vaatele , or great 
canoe, one body of the canoe was much longer than the other, and 
instead of the shed being built in midships it was placed on a stage that 
projected far over the stern. It differed also in the rig, and was 
altogether more difficult to manage than the alia, which has 
superseded it. The last of these once famous canoes was in existence 
in Samoa when I reached there in 1838. It belonged to Pe’a, a chief 
of Manono, but was broken up some short time after I reached the 
islands, and I do not think another has been built since. These large 
canoes must have been of considerable size, since, upon the fishing 
expeditions made at certain seasons of the year to a reef midway 
between Wallis Island and Savai’i, they were accustomed to carry 
