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On the reverse side are the words "Cristoval Colon" and several letters which indicate that the inscription "Ua. pte." etc., was begun here but was stopped, perhaps because there was not sufficient room. The small lead ball, similar to a musket-ball, found in the box, has been the subject of much comment.
Like the Arabian Mohammed, Te Ua was considered to be a person of weak intellect; like Mohammed, he claimed to have received his revelation from the Angel Gabriel; like the Arabian prophet again, he put forth a mixture of Judaism and heathenism which sanctioned polygamy, and whose propagation was to be carried on by the sword.
They went, they fought, they conquered, and made a clean sweep of Papatea; and hence the proverb: "Like the rage of Elo." Also for a village destroyed in battle they say: "Ua faa Papateaina" made to be like Papatea. All who fled to the bush were sought and killed, only those who fled to sea escaped.
"Where has father gone, Muzzie?" she said in English, and then rapidly added in Samoan, "Ua alu ia i moana?" "Yes, Loisé. He has gone upon the sea, but will soon return. Where is Mâlu?" From a long experience of life in the Pacific Islands, the writer is thoroughly imbued with and endorses that belief.
If I looked to that side, I might have sung with the Hawaiian poet: Ua maomao ka lani, ua kahaea luna, Ua pipi ka maka o ka hoku.
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