fatueki

Updated: May 16, 2025

On his haunches, he slid nearer to me. "Afu! Afu! Afu!" he said, the sound that in his tongue means the groan of the dying. "You came by the Fatueki?". "I tasted the water and smelled the smell," I answered. "It was there that Tufetu died," he observed. "I struck the blow, and I ate his arm, his right arm, for he was brave and strong. That was a war!" "What caused that war?"

Frederick O'Brien - White Shadows in the South Seas