feis

Updated: May 23, 2025

They would not go hungry, for mango-trees lined the road, and bananas, feis, and pineapples were to be had for the taking. We drove through Aapahi and Faaripoo and saw a funeral. In the grounds of the dead man sat two large groups of people, the men and the women separate. They talked of his dying and his property, and his children, while those who liked to do so made him ready for the grave.

Frederick O'Brien - Mystic Isles of the South Seas.