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"Can a man with a nose like that," she went on, "have any secrets from his Vava lele ririe?" And at the Vava she tweaked his nose to the right; at lele it went to the left; at ririe she nipped it straight again. "Well, I have just seen " Crevel stopped and looked at Madame Marneffe. "Valerie, my treasure, promise me on your honor ours, you know? not to repeat a single word of what I tell you."
But presently, in response to a signal from the Lucy May, the whaler lay to; a boat put off from the smaller ship, and Captain Ross came alongside, clambered over the bulwarks and joined Cayse and the young king of Port Lele, who were awaiting him on the poop, to discuss with him the plan of surprise and slaughter of the offending people of Leassé.
All this time the other white men and the rest of Charlik's people were firing their muskets, but their bullets only hit the heavy logs of the barrier, and Letya and our people killed them very easily by putting their muskets through the spaces. When the sailors saw their captain fall, they tried to run away, and the Lele warriors ran with them.
There were but three villages of any size on the island that at Lelé, where the King and his principal chiefs lived, Utwe or Port Lottin, and Moût or Leasee, on the shores of Coquille Harbour. At this latter place I lived most of the time during my stay on the island. We were enabled to save a considerable amount of stores from the wreck, as well as some arms and ammunition.
"I bought this vessel intending to run her among the Marshall and Caroline Islands in the usual trade you know: coconut oil, turtle shell, and sharks' fins. After leaving Honolulu we cruised among the eastward islands and did well so well that we nearly filled the ship. Then we stood away for the Carolines, and on our way ran into Port Lêle on Strong's Island, to wood and water.
It was after we left there that Tracey lost his wife. Poor girl, her end was a terrible one." He sighed, and then resumed. "A very terrible end she was lost overboard. But let me tell the whole story. "Whilst we were lying at anchor at Lêle we met an old trader there, with whom Tracey and myself frequently spent an evening.
Let me keep as many of them as I have room for aboard, and I'll pay for them in muskets and powder and bullets." "What do you want with them?" "Sell them to old Abba Dul, the king of the Pelews. I've done business with him before." Charlik called Kanka over to him, and the two spoke in low tones. Then the young ruler of Lele shook his head. "No.
From that time fowls were no longer called Moa on Manu'a, but Manu lele, or winged creatures, out of respect to the name of the king. Fitiaumua, or Fiji the foremost, is also mixed up with Manu'a history. He was said to have come from the east, was a great warrior, conquered at Fiji, and in his lust for conquest came to Samoa.
This island is governed by two chiefs; this one here, Charlik, has most people, but the other lot, who live on the lee side of the island, rebelled against his father more'n ten years ago. They've had a good many fights, an' in the last one these Lele people got badly whipped.
However, the supposed answers were generally acted upon. On the outside of this inner court was the lele, or altar, on which human and other sacrifices were offered. On the day of the dedication of the temple to Tairi, vast offerings of fruit, dogs, and hogs were presented, and eleven human beings were immolated on the altar.
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