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Updated: May 28, 2025
The Samoan pillow, formed by four legs and a bamboo; the legs being the four brothers, the bamboo the father. There is a man who calls out continually day and night. Explan. The surf on the reef, which never rests. There is a man who, when he leaves the bush, is very little; but when he has reached the sea-shore, becomes very great. Explan.
There are twenty brothers, each with a hat on his head. Explan. A man's fingers and toes; the nails of which are represented as hats. A man who stands between two ravenous fish. Explan. The tongue, as being placed between the teeth of the upper and lower jaws. There are four brothers, who are always bearing about their father. Explan.
The bark of the paper-mulberry, which, when first taken off the wood, is very narrow; but, when beaten out to make the native cloth, becomes very broad. A man who has a white head stands above the fence, and reaches to the heavens. Explan. The smoke rising from the oven. The person who sleeps on a bed of whales' teeth. Explan. A fowl sitting on her eggs. Many brothers, but only one intestine.
Explan. A string of beads. The beads being the brothers, and the string the intestine. A long house with one post. Explan. The nose; the septum being the post." They had also games at rhyming. One party would choose the names of trees and another the names of men. Those who sided with the trees would say: "There is the Fau tree, tell us a name which will rhyme with it."
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