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Updated: June 6, 2025
Ai na muri iho eiaha ra te hoe taata e fariu imuri; te taata hopea ra te tuo i te tahua e fariu; na fariu ia, mai te mea e tuo te taata i ropu e fariu, tau roa te taata i ropu e fariu, pau roa te taata i te auahi; na reira toa ia haere no te aano o te umu. Te i te huru o taua ohipa ra, e ohipa tiaporo te tumu ia i taua ohipa a Tupua ra. E vahine varua ino teie tona ioa o te Vahine tahura'i.
The hereditary retainers of the Tupua would see him exiled even with some complacency. But Mataafa was Tupua himself; and Tupua men would probably have murmured, and would perhaps have mutinied, had he been harshly dealt with. The native opposition, I say, was in a sense continuous. And it kept continuously growing.
If but one falls all will be burned. The last must watch the sorcerer, to return when he makes the sign. That is the way this deed, the deed of the devil, is done by Tupua. The woman called Vahine tahura'i is an evil spirit. Concerning Piraeuri and Piritea, Tupua would better not have spoken, as it was a useless prayer. Do not introduce the sorcery in the land of the whites!
This name, as I have said, is of peculiar honour; it had been given to, it had never been taken from, the exiled Laupepa; those in whose grant it lay, stood punctilious upon their rights; and Tamasese, as the representative of their natural opponents, the Tupua line, was the last who should have had it. And there was yet more, though I almost despair to make it thinkable by Europeans.
The manner of doing this was told by Tupua, who heads the procession in the picture, to Monsieur Morne, Lieutenant de Vaisseau, who also took the photograph of it, about two years ago, at Uturoa, Raiatea, which, being on bad paper, was copied off by Mr. Barnfield, of Honolulu.
The reader will now understand the peculiar significance of a deputation which should embrace Lauati and the orators of both Malie and Manono, how it would represent all that is most effective on the Malietoa side, and all that is most considerable in Samoan politics, except the opposite feudal party of the Tupua. And in the temptation brought to bear on Mataafa, even the Tupua was conjoined.
O pirae uri, o pirae tea, i ore ratou ia parau hia. Aita e faufaa i taua ohipa ra. Eiaha Roa'tu orua a rave i taua ohipa ra i te fenua Papa'a na e ama te taata i te anahi, no te mea e ere i te ohipa mau, e ohipa varua ino no te po te reira te huru o taua ohipa a Tupua ra. Tereira te mau havi rii i roa'a mai ia'u no tau a ohipa ra. Tirara. Taumihau tane. This is the word of the oven of Tupua.
The reader will now understand the peculiar significance of a deputation which should embrace Lauati and the orators of both Malie and Manono, how it would represent all that is most effective on the Malietoa side, and all that is most considerable in Samoan politics, except the opposite feudal party of the Tupua. And in the temptation brought to bear on Mataafa, even the Tupua was conjoined.
Certain old mats are handed down, and set huge store by; they may be compared to coats of arms or heirlooms among ourselves; and to the horror of more than one-half of Samoa, Tamasese, the head of the Tupua, began collecting Malietoa mats. It was felt that the cup was full, and men began to prepare secretly for rebellion.
Do not carry there this custom of lighting the oven! It is the work of an evil spirit of the night; this act of Tupua. For that reason I have said little of him in my story. I have spoken. Taumihau, The Man. Farewell to Tautira My good-bye feast Back at the Tiare A talk with Lovaina The Cercle Bougainville Death of David My visit to the cemetery Off for the Marquesas.
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