Title: Niuē-fekai (or Savage) Island and its People

Author: S. Percy Smith

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

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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Ko e falu a tupua kehekehe

57. Kua fanau mai e Tali-mai-nuku e tau tagata fofo mena. Ke vehevehe ni, kua nofo falu ke he tahi, ko e faoa ni a Huanaki; ka e nofo e falu i uta, kua totolo e falu, ka e lele e falu i a lautolu. Ne tupu ai a Puga he magafaoa ia.

58. Ko Toli-ō-atua, ko ia ne fanau e kaiha. Ko Nifo-taha mo Kai-hagā mo Kai-hamulu mo Ate-lapa, ko e kule ia. Mo Tilalo-fonua, ko e kumā ia ne fofo e Peka e tau tapakau; ti fa kaiha ai foki e falu a veheveheaga he tau tagata.

59. Ko Tali-mai-nuku, ne nofo ai a ia i Tautu; ko ia foki ne fanau a Fakatafe-tau mo Fakalagalaga, ko e tau takitaki a laua he tau gahua ke tau.

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58. Toli-ō-atua was he who gave birth to thieves:–Nifo-taha, Kai-hagā, Kai-hamulu, Ate-lapa (who was a kule, i.e., Porphrio bird), Tilalo-fonua (who was a rat, whose wings were stolen by Peka), and some divisions of them became fish.

59. Tali-mai-nuku lived at Tautu, and he gave birth to Fakatafetau and Fakalagalaga, who are the leaders in works of war.