(4.) Solosolo means falling, and the town was so named from a loose stone wall which the first settlers there built, but which repeatedly fell down.  Aumua and Oloatua are the names of two divisions of the settlement, separated by the wall.  These were the names of two attendants of a lady called Manu, who had several Samoan suitors but rejected them all, and went to Tonga.  Two Tongan kings made proposals to her.  The one was good-looking, and the other was more noted for good living and even cannibal preferences.  Her attendants advised her to marry the latter, but to try and get her share of the cannibal feast alive, and save them.  She took their advice, married the gourmand king, and when baked human bodies were laid before her, begged that, for the future, such offerings might be presented alive.  This was granted, and one after another of her share in the victims was passed over, alive as she got them, to the care of her attendants, Aumua and Oloatua, at a place on the opposite side of the road.  By-and-by it became a large village of the saved.

Queen Manu had a daughter called Vaetoeifanga who grew up to womanhood.  She was heard of in Samoa, and a lady was sent to Tonga to try and get her to come and marry the king of Aana.  The lady described his land as a perfect paradise, with nine springs of water, and she was persuaded to go and be the wife of the king of Aana.  When she came to Samoa a number of the people from the village of the saved, with Aumua and Oloatua, came with her, and gave the names to these places at Solosolo.  Some of them also went further east and occupied and named some of the settlements about Fangaloa, or the Long-bay, as it is called from its running far inland.

Solosolo was also noted as the residence of the cannibal god, Maniloa, as he was called.  He lived in a valley, and the people worshipped him.  As they went with their offerings of food they had to cross a ravine, walking, Blondin style, on a thick vine which the god stretched across the valley.  He sat himself in the middle of the said vine-rope, shook it as any one he fancied approached, and down fell the victim dead into the ravine, and ready for the next meal.

A young man called Polu-leuligana, Polu-of-dark-speech, son of Malietoa, called one day when on a journey.  The people related to him their grievances, and how they were being all eaten up by Maniloa.  This daring youth concocted a scheme.  He told them to fix upon some one to sit concealed with an axe at the end of the rope next to the village, and that he would go round, axe in hand also, by a circuitous course, and conceal himself close by the end of the rope on the other side of the ravine; there he would watch till the god was again in his place on the centre of the rope, rise up, shout at the top of his voice, and this was to be the signal to cut the rope at each end and let fall their cannibal enemy.  They did so.  Next day Maniloa went along and sat down on the rope to wait for his victim.  Presently the valley rang with a shout, the rope was cut at both ends, and down, crash into the ravine, went the horrid old creature, and ever after Solosolo was saved from his cannibalism.