Folau_ʻa_Kae/en
The voyage of Kae
Vessel was built in Haʻamea, hoisted sail inland and loaded; the vessel that took cargo in a pool. «This land is tiresome, let each person prepare his own things for us to voyage to the talking puko tree, leave Tongatapu and run before the wind.» Clap! Haʻapai was sighted, Vavaʻu was sighted, reported the navigators. Shook the head Loʻau, «No, the lies of the navigators, let us take these friends, and leave (them) at the horizon.» Clap! And steered down their vessel, and arrived at the white sea, and the floating pumice sea, and the slimy sea that was foretold. «Stand to sea and ward off! Why are you crying? Is it not the treachery of the navigators whereby we win all be lost!» Clap! Turning place of voyagers is the great pandanus tree there became entangled their mast. Longopoa and Kae climbed; They swarmed into its branches and they pushed the vessel free. It was lost through the sky opening into the land of space. That was the cause of the loss of the vessel. Clap! Longopoa and Kae, two gods, those two men were clever, well done was their meditation. «Come, let us await the flooding tide, and we two swim in it each seeking a land of his own.» Clap! Came up Kae from his swim, landing at the island of Kanivatu, sandy with no reef. Aground were eight whales and neiufi fish about a hundred. «My murder, what a waste, I may be caught by the bird Kanivatu.» Clap! Slept Kae between two whales, returned the bird from its fishing. Lay under (it) Kae and laughed: «Was there ever such a bird enormous I wish that I might seize it for my token to let Tonga know one thing.» Clap! Preparing the break of dawn preening and stretching, preparing to fly, fluttering. Kae holding on its breast, fished the bird over mid-ocean, While hanging the big man, glancing down to the coral sand, falling with a thud at ʻAkana. And went to get his morning kava with Sinilau, who befriended him, and gave him social standing. But Kae did not sit in the kava ring. Clap! Fish of Sāmoa were fed, the longoʻuli and the whale, in a small muddy water hole which they unsettled. (Whale) caught by Sāmoa and divided, And brought was its shoulder and hung in the house 1oft. The adopted daughter of Sinilau's father's sister swallowed it at a mouthful, and wept away pregnant; gave birth to twin (whales), Tonga and Tununga-tofuaʻa. Clap! Dwelt there Kae but wished to go, and he asked Sinilau: «To bring the twins alike for me to ride on, and I will tell Tongatapu, that the yoke of Sinilau's is wonderfully strong.» Clap! Then spoke Sinilau, «Tununga and Tonga, you go on an errand; take Kae to Tongatapu but remember to return for me. Stand up and go. Bring a bunch of coconuts and scented oil and uncolored tapa and coconut mats, and leave satiated for our voyage, returning for me to come.» Clap! Vavaʻu glided by; Haʻapai glided by; appeared Tongatapu at the prow: «Tununga and Tonga, to the shallow water, while I go to Haʻamea and tell that I have come with the twins, Tonga and Tununga-tofuaʻa.» Clap! Landed Kae and kept shouting: «Come all Haʻamea and see, collect your weeding sticks, bamboo lances, and come in a mass, for us to drag out my vesse1.» Clap! And escaped Tonga and told sat Sinilau and greeted, «Oh Tonga, where is Tununga?» «Observe you my back; it is thick with lances. Were we two not chal1enged? And Tununga was overtaken, but Tonga escaped because cunning.» Clap! Sat Sinilau and complained: «Sāmoa, collect the gods, and assemble at Hunga and Hunga, and plait a basket first, the large double basket, with handles threaded double, made long fore and aft, and call it a Hunga basket.» Clap! «And you assemble at Land's End and carry it and fi11 from ʻEua, and fi11 at Fangaleʻounga, and fi11 at all Hihifo, and lastly fil1 at Napua, and put Kae on the top.» And then went the gods, but forgot the (whale's) tooth at Muʻa. Clap! «Sinilau, here we are; we have brought this man,» Stood at once (Sinilau) and gave thanks. «Leave him there as you have brought him; you go, but return in the early morning; Wait till day, then we will inquire, why he came to betray.» Clap! Crowed the cocks-like old friends, (Thought Kae,) «Cocks have voices like the pair at Sinilau's.» Then expressed a wish he was there, whereas he was lying at (Sinilau's) boat shed. At early morn he looked out, and saw sitting there Sinilau with his turban. Clap! (Said Sinilau,) «This petty chief is a fool, especially after my telling him lest my mother be sterile. With all respect to Tongatapu, Kae (is) a commoner from a swamped vessel. Is dug his grave in the green.» Then he was brought and sat with legs crossed, while he was cursed. Clap! Bring the trough and make clear (the water). sat (up in it) Tununga and chirped but he lacked one tooth. «What is that to conceal! I will arrange when at peace, while Kae is seeking a body.» Clap!