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Updated: June 12, 2025
Into the port of Apia there fall two small streams called "rivers" by the local people the Mulivai and the Vaisigago, and I was fortunate to see specimens of the ta~nifa on three occasions, twice at the Vaisigago, and once at the mouth of the Mulivai, but I had never seen one caught, or even sufficiently exposed to give me an idea of its proportions.
Quite a week afterwards, during which time neither of the ta~nifa had been seen alive, the smaller of the two was found dead on the beach at Vailele Plantation, about four miles from the Vaivasa.
To our surprise, for we were both well known to and on very friendly terms with the contending parties, half a dozen of them sprang up and excitedly bade us not to attempt to cross. We saw it last night." That was quite enough for us for the name Ta~nifa sent a cold chill down our backs.
In all the many years that I had spent on Manono, I had not once seen the boy Manaia he who had taken me from the water though I had heard of him as having been tattooed and grown into a tall man. He was sitting with the other young men, and like them, dressed in his best, and carrying a musket and the long knife called nifa oti.
None of the bullets took effect and the ta~nifa sailed slowly off again to cruise to and fro for another hour, watching for any hapless person who might cross the river. Just as the kava was being handed round, some children who were on watch cried out that the ta~nifa had come.
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