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He quarrelled with the chief there and went off to the village called Palapala, where he met with Tavaetele, _Great tropic bird_, who had come from Aana on Upolu to seek taro plants. The Palapala people were generous, and presented the Upolu chief with 100,000 plants. The retinue of the chief made a difficulty about taking so many across the channel, but Pili stepped forward and said he would bring them all over himself, which he actually did, and helped in making a taro plantation, which extended from the one side of Aana to the other, right across the island. He remained there and married Sina, the daughter of this chief. Pili and his wife had four children. First there were twins, the one called Tua and the other Ana. Tua was so named from the _back_ of a turtle which Pili caught at that time, and Ana from the _cave_ in which it was taken. The next born was called Tuamasanga, or, _After the twins_. Then followed Tolufale, or _Three houses_, from the three houses into which the mother was taken before the child was born. When Pili was old and dying he called his children together and appointed them their places and employments. To Tua, the eldest, he gave the plantation dibble, as the business of agriculture, and the eastern division of Upolu now called Atua. To Tuamasanga he committed the orator's staff and fly-flapper, with which to do the business of speaking, and, as a residence, the central division of Upolu called Tuamasanga: hence the name of the district there called Sangana, _sacred to oratory_. To Ana he gave the Spear as the emblem of war, and as a district, the western division of Upolu called Aana. Tolufale was to live on Manono, but to go about and take the oversight of all. The old man finished up his will with: "When you wish to fight, fight; when you wish to work, work; when you wish to talk, talk." After his death they separated, and went to their respective places and employments. 1. ATUA is the eastern division of Upolu, and it again was subdivided into what they called the head, the middle, and the tail. (1.) _Aleipata_ is a district at the east end of the island, and was called the head, as the titled king or _head_ of Atua resided there. The name originated in Alei and Pata, a couple who were said to have come from the heavens and taught their children to build houses. They were very good-looking, and charged their children that when they died they were to be buried in a standing posture
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