apo-i-le-lima

Updated: May 2, 2025

Before he left Fiji his father told him to call himself Apo-i-le-lima, or Apolima, which means, Poised in the hand, from the spear which he held when he speared Manono. They have been often attacked, but never conquered, from their impregnable island fortress.

George Turner - Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before