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It is said the name originated in a man who undertook to build a house without scaffolding, and from his continued stretching upward added to his stature, and gave a name to the place. Some say its name originated in the fort of the chief Moa which was there during the Tongan invasion; others trace it to a foreign courtship. Of old, they say, the women courted the men, but now it is the reverse.
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.
With forward velocity almost checked, we poised, and Snap began his signals to the unsuspecting Grantline. My work momentarily was over. I sat watching the radio room. Moa was here, close beside me. I felt always her watchful gaze, so that even the play of my emotions needed reining. Miko worked with Snap. Anita too was here.
I was aware of the helmeted figure of Moa casting off Anita and then the two girls leaping upon Miko. It threw him off his balance, and my hanging weight made him topple forward. He took a step to recover himself; his hand with the knife was flung up with an instinctive, involuntary balancing gesture. And as it came down again, I forced the knife-blade to graze his throat.
"I don't believe you can," she said, with a candor so wistful that Miss Milray stopped quite short. "How does Mr. Gregory take this Belsky business?" she asked. "I guess he feels it moa than I do," said the girl. "He shows his feeling more?" "Yes no He believes he drove him to it." Miss Milray took her hand, for parting, but did not kiss her. "I won't advise you, my dear.
It was not one of the destructive proliferous rats of the northern hemisphere. The Maoris hunted the big birds the Moas and others for their flesh, and ate their eggs, and it is probable that they caused or accelerated the extinction of the Moa and two or three other birds. In the north island they nearly exterminated the white heron, the plumes being valued by them.
"Gregg, I don't want her to die! She was trying to help you there at the last." She opened her eyes. The film of death was glazing them. But she saw me, recognized me. "Gregg " "Yes, Moa. I'm here." Her vivid lips were faintly drawn in a smile. "I'm so glad you took the helmets off, Gregg. I'm going you know." "No!" "Going back to Mars to rest with the fire-makers where I came from.
Clementina felt the fascination, too; she thought the slippers were beautiful, and her foot thrilled with a mysterious prescience of its fitness for them. "Now, the'e, ladies, or as I may say guls, if you'll excuse it in one that's moa like a fatha to you than anything else, in his feelings" the girls tittered, and some one shouted derisively "It's true!"
On the 27th, being in the latitude of 2 degrees 10 minutes south, and in the longitude of 146 degrees 57 minutes, we fancied that we had a sight of the island of Moa, but it proved to be that of Jama, which lies a little to the east of Moa. We found here great plenty of cocoa-nuts and other refreshments.
"If L. F. will retarn to her afflicted relatives she shall be received with open aams. And shall be forgotten and forgiven and reunaited affection shall solace every wound." "That is the style. It always brings 'em back dayvilish good paie have some moa." Mr. Fountain and Mrs. Bazalgette raised an outcry against the captain's advice, and, when the table was calm again, Mrs.
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