barracoutta

Updated: January 27, 2026

Its name, Lavasii, became a title of chief ruler, and that title has remained in that particular family to this day. One of the Samoans killed in 1876 in a skirmish with the marines of H.M.S. Barracoutta had at that time the title of Lavasii.

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