high-chief-known

Updated: May 1, 2025

"I have it straight from Papalangi Mativa himself." "Have what?" I asked. "Excellency," said Papalangi Mativa, "perhaps it is not high-chief-known to thee that I and mine come from a noble Savai'i stock, and that the son of my mother's sister, a stripling named O, numbered himself among the enemy and was to-day killed and his head taken on the field of Vaitele." "Aue!"

Lloyd Osbourne - Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas