Journal of Edwin H. Bryan, Jr. while with the Whitney Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History on the schooner France, February to October 1924
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"GENEALOGY OF SAFUNE" [Compiled by O. F. Nelson] "Lealali took to wife one Malelega Savaii, daughter of Sevo of Safotu, and had issue Tupaillelei, etc. Tuitoga, King of Toga, took to wife daughter of Tuifiti and had issue Laufafa-i-Toga, girl. "Laufafa-i-Toga came to Samoa on hearing of the wonderful man Tupauulelei, but on arrival in Samoa she found Tupauulelei was not as handsome as he was re- ported to be; so she accepted the hand of his brother, Tupainatuna. "When Laufofa-i-Toga was with child she asked her husband to take her back to Toga for her confinement. On the way to Toga they struck a gale and the boat passed Toga and ultimately landed in Fiji, and when the child was born, the boy was named Vaasiliifiti, the boat overreached her destination to Fiji. "When she was with child again, Tupainatuna requested her to go to Samoa with him. She gave birth to a girl just as they sighted Samoa, hence the name of the girl, Samoauafotu. They landed in Tupainatuna's grandfather's place and called the name Safotu, named after the little child. The girl's name was shortened to Fotu and she lived in Safotu with her great grandfather and her parents. Her brother Vaasiliifiti took up his residence in Taea, so as to be near his sister. Vaasiliifiti took to wife two women of Upolu named Feenaga and Feeta. Both women had a son on the arrival of whom Vaasiliifiti went back to Savaii with his two wives and two sons. On the way down they found the kernel of a breadfruit, which in Samoa is called Fune; so one of the women - Feata - named her son after this Fune. In the progress of their journey they caught a stingaree, with the skin of which they made a sail for their boat, hence the name of the other son, Laifai, which means "a sail made from the skin of a stingaree." "The village of Taea became Safune after Fune the founder, and Laifai's