(3.) Matautu is to the west of Saleaula, and is the district which takes the lead in the attack wherever war is determined on.  They trace the origin of the name of their place to Lautalatoa of Fiji, whose son, called Utu, resided there.

(4.) Safotu and Safune were named after Fotu and Fune, the children of Lafai already referred to.  The people of Safune once fought at Faleata on Upolu.  Many of them were killed, and the place where their bodies were buried was afterwards called Safune, in remembrance of the slain.  Fune had the epithet feai, or savage, added to his name, from the habit which he had of biting his finger-nails when he went to battle.

(5.) Aopo, a small inland village, was named after a chief called Aopo.  It is said that the god Tangaloa of the heavens once gave the people there a choice of two things.  First, a heap of whales’ teeth, or, secondly, a stream of water.  They chose the former.  The god said, “No; you had better have the water.”  They still persisted, however, in wishing No. 1, and got it, but it turned out to be a heap of stones!  They repented and wished the stream, but it was too late.  The stream was given to Saleaula, and is called Vaituutuu, or “Given water,” to this day.

(6.) Falealupo, or the “House for Lupo,” is a settlement in the west end of Savaii.  A couple from Tonga lived there.  They had a son who was lame, and who could only sit on a rock with a fishing-rod and catch small fish called Lupo.  They built a house for him there, into which he threw the lupo as he caught them.  The god Salevao and his travelling party in passing there one day admired the house, and called it Falealupo, or a house for lupo; and hence the name alike of the fish-house and the settlement.

There were two circular openings among the rocks near the beach at this village, where the souls of the departed were supposed to find an entrance to the world of spirits, away under the ocean, and which they called Pulotu.  The chiefs went down the larger of the two, and the common people had the smaller one.  They were conveyed thither by a band of spirits who hovered over the house where they died, and took a straight course in the bush westward.  There is a stone at the west end of Upolu called “the leaping-stone,” from which spirits in their course leaped into the sea, swam to Manono, leaped from a stone on that island again, crossed to Savaii, and went overland to the Fafa at Falealupo, as the entrance to their hades was called.  The villagers in that neighbourhood kept the cocoa-nut leaf blinds of their houses all closely shut down after dark, so as to keep out the spirits supposed to be constantly passing to and fro.  There was a cocoa-nut tree near the entrance to those lower regions, and this tree was called the tree of Leosia, or the Watcher.  If a spirit struck against it that soul went back at once to its body.  In such a case of restoration from the gates of death the family rejoiced and exclaimed, “He has come back from the tree of the Watcher.”