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Updated: May 10, 2025
I will put my boat between he and thee and keep him off. Whither wouldst land?" "Not here, unless we are pressed. But we are in bad case; for see, on the one side comes Pule-o-Vaitafe, and on the other Tamavili. Yet if thou wilt be the good friend to us, we may escape both, and keep on our way to the open sea." "The open sea!" cried Manka quickly "and whither to?" "To Uea."
But yet he tried to get another rich wife, and sent a deputation of his chiefs to Seu Manu of Apia asking for his daughter Sina; and Sina sent him back a piece of wood carved in the semblance of a woman, together with a stone shaped like a heart, with this message "This is a good wife for Pule-o-Vaitafe. If she displease him, he can sink her in the sea with a heart of stone."
"Thou art a bold fellow," said the white man again, "and shalt have the girl, for thou art worthy of her. And she shall keep the money for her dowry. I am no man to go back on my word, even though I lose so fair a bride. As for Pule-o-Vaitafe, I care not a blade of grass, and for Tamavili even less.
I, Pule-o-Vaitafe, want no needy dependents." "Thou art a hard man," said my uncle, bending his forehead to the mat on which he sat. "And thou art a fool," replied my father; "if thy heart pains thee of this, why dost thou not give them all that they wish?"
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.
Now this was a great gift, and it came with such generous words that the people applauded, and my father smiled, as his long thin fingers closed around the heap of gold; but suddenly his face darkened as Manaia spoke. "'Tis a free gift to the lady Sa Luia. Therefore, O Pule-o-Vaitafe, give it to her." "Aye, aye! 'tis hers, 'tis hers," cried the people.
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