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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