(5.) Falealili, or the House-of-Lili, is the name of a district on the south side of Atua.  Lili was a chief from Fiji whose mother was a Samoan.  He and some others were driven away from Fiji on account of bad conduct.  When he came to Samoa the land had been divided, but he got his share, as the tail of Atua.  He built a large house, and from this house of Lili the district was named.  It embraces a number of villages and adjacent places, named after local circumstances or events. Salani was so called from the white coral pebbles on the beach with which the women decorate the graves of the dead. Salesatele was also called the sweat of Falealili, from the heroism of the people of that place in battle.  If the king of Atua was on a journey, and carried along shoulder high, as soon as he reached this village he had to get down and walk, as a mark of respect to the chivalrous villagers. Faleulu, or Housed-by-the-bread-fruit-tree, was so named from a party who came from Fiji by way of Manu’a and Tutuila, and who, on reaching Upolu, were benighted there and slept under a bread-fruit tree.  The name of Poutasi, or One-post, had its origin in a great O’a tree (Bischoffia javanica) which a chief ordered to be dug up root and all, planted in the village, and made the centre post of his house. Lotofanga is said to have been named after Loto and Fanga, who were sent by the king of Fiji to search for a runaway son.  A lagoon is said to have been there once, but was dried up by these first inhabitants of the place pouring hot water into it.

2.  TUAMASANGA is the central division of Upolu, having about sixteen miles of coast on the north side, and twelve on the south.

(1.) At Malie, in the district of Sangana on the north side, the chief Malietoa had his principal residence when on Upolu; and of the doings there of some of these Malietoas, or “Pleasing-heroes,” as the name means, many stories are told.  After Polu-leuligana had seen the old cannibal god dead in the ravine at Solosolo (p. 238) he returned to Sangana.  On his arrival the first thing he heard was the wailing of a poor lad who had just been brought over from Savaii and was about to be killed for Malietoa’s next meal.  Polu told him to be quiet, and promised to try and save his life.  He ordered the usual green cocoa-nut leaves to be plaited, and himself to be done up in them, slung on a pole, carried by two men, and laid down before his father as if it were the baked victim from Savaii.  Malietoa saw a bright eye peering through the leaflets, opened, and behold! there was his son Polu-leuligana.  He was so touched with this extraordinary condescension of his son that he not only saved the lad who was about to be killed, but further, to mark the day and the event, he declared that from that time no more human victims were to be killed for the oven, and that pigs were to be used instead.  After this Polu was named Faaifoaso, or “Downfall-of-Cannibalism.”