Title: Samoa Under the Sailing Gods

Author: N. A. Rowe

Publication details: 1930, London

Part of: Tidal Pools: Digitized Texts from Oceania for Samoan and Pacific Studies

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Tagisia La'ulu o se vaa ia goto.

Samoan Proverb.

"The venture to La'ulu" (a submerged reef, mythical or otherwise, surrounding the Samoa Islands, so far distant that land may only just be seen, abounding with fish, but toilsome to get to) "is repaid by the return with a sinking boat-load."

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