Another story is told of the said Malietoa.  He was annoyed at the disappearance of some of his bread-fruits, bananas, and fowls, and summoned to Sangana all the priests of the Tuamasanga.  Twenty of them assembled.  He told them what had been stolen, and ordered them to divine the thief.  After a long silence they said they could not tell.  They were then tied hand and foot, carried outside, and laid down in the blazing sun till they could declare the name of the thief.  At the same time Malietoa sent off to Savaii for a noted conjurer called Vaapuu or “Short-canoe.”  After some days he arrived, and found the priests still tied up in the sun.  On hearing the case he turned to Malietoa and said:  “Listen while I tell you the names of the thieves. The owl has taken your fowls. The bat has eaten your bread-fruits.  And the Kingfisher bird has made away with your bananas.”  This was enough.  The twenty priests were liberated, went to their respective homes, and told how they owed their lives to the ready reply of the expert Vaapuu.

(2.) Faleata, or the “House-of-Ata,” embraces a number of small villages, and was so named from the chief Ata.  Ata was killed in battle, and his brother Too took it so much to heart that he went away inland, scooped out a great hollow, and filled it with his tears; and hence the lake there called Lanutoo, or “Lake-of-Too.”

The Faleata people were and still are distinguished for their heroism and clever scheming in war.  In a battle on Savaii they fled before the Safune people, or rather pretended to flee.  While some fled others lay down among the slain as if motionless and dead; and when the Safune people came to search for those of their own who had fallen, up started the living Faleata people with their clubs, rushed at them, and again conquered Safune.  Hence a sham retreat in war is to this day called “a Faleata flight.”

(3.) Apia is the name of the principal harbour in the Tuamasanga.  The word is abbreviated from Apitia, or straightened, and the place was so named in remembrance of a battle, in which the Tuamasanga came suddenly down from the bush on to the fleet of Manono canoes, threw them into disorder, and, in their haste to escape, ran upon one another in the narrow passage out of the harbour.  The village inland of Apia, called Tanumamanono, or “The-burial-place-of-Manono,” keeps up in its name the remembrance of the slain of Manono buried there.

(4.) Laulii is the name of a village in the east end of the Tuamasanga.  A couple lived there called Lau and Lii, with a party who came from Fiji and took up their abode in the bay there which was called “Sacred to the gods.”  A large canoe was being built by three chiefs there in the bush.  Lau and Lii wished to see it, as it was a very superior one, and to be called, “The canoe without a leak.”  They mistook the road, wandered, could not find either the canoe or its builders, and were so angry over the disappointment that they changed themselves into two rocks which stand there, and in remembrance of them the place is called Laulii.