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Updated: May 15, 2025
One day Selema and I went to the river to wash our hair with the pith of the wild oranges. We sat on the smooth stones near the water, and had just begun to beat the oranges with pieces of wood to soften them, when we saw a man come down the bank and enter a deep pool further up the stream. "'Tis Manaia," said Selema; "he hath come to drag the pool for fish."
When I got into deep water with my Samoan, Laulii would help me out, and we would both translate what was said to my mother and the others. The manaia and his young men, who had taken a back seat while their elders received us, came over to join in the talk and tell us of the preparations for our visit. Willis, was a close friend of Mrs.
And so Loli, who would have welcomed us, was afraid, and begged us not to land and so bring about bloodshed. "Great is my sorrow, O wanderers," he cried to us, as we sat in the boat a little distance from the beach, "but ye must not land. * The New Hebrides Group. "Is it far?" asked Manaia scornfully.
It was not as long as a man's arm nor as thick as a woman's, but it kept us alive. Manaia gave us all the flesh, and kept only the head and skin for himself; after that all the world became dark to me, and we lay together in the boat to die.
And then came the time when all our food was gone, and we waited for death to come. Manaia had eaten no food for five days when it came to this, for he said he was feeling quite strong, and divided his share between us.
Then we played casino, with sticks of tobacco on our side and head knives, fans, etc., on theirs, for stakes. I perceived that the manaia purposely played badly in order to let me win his head knife, on which he had carved my name.
Hayes's crew were all gloriously drunk, so were some of the Narrangansett men, and a lot of flash Samoan manaia, i.e., "bucks," lent a hand in the proceedings; for even in those days the Germans were as much hated by the natives as they are at the present time.
Once as he and I slept Selema put a little piece of old coconut the last that was left into my hand, and slipped over the side to die, but Manaia heard her, and, although he was very weak, he roused and caught her as she sank. Two days before that on which the ship found us Manaia shot a small shark which was following the boat.
I, who was shaking with fear, cannot now well remember all that followed, after Manaia headed our canoe for the shore, and tried to escape, but suddenly, it seemed to me, the white man's boat, with flapping sail, was upon as, and Manka was laughing loudly. "Ho, ho!" he cried, pulling his long white moustache, "so this is the way the wind bloweth!
And so when Pule-o-Vaitafe took the money from her which was thy free gift I waited till he slept, and stole the key of his treasure-chest, and took the money so that it might be returned to thee." "Is this true?" asked the white man of Manaia. "The money is thine," said Manaia, who knew not what else to say, "but the woman is mine.
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