[13]Palusami—a pudding prepared from grated cocoanut, flavoured with red hot stone, mixed with sea water, and wrapped in taro leaves, from which the acrid stem has been scorched, then in a banana leaf, finally in a breadfruit leaf.
[14]Tafolo—a pudding made of breadfruit with a sauce of grated cocoanut.
[15]Swimming in the hole within the reef required more skill than swimming in still water; it involved diving and also battling with a water level which changed several feet with each great wave.
[16]Tapui.The hieroglyphic signs used by the Samoans to protect their property from thieves. Thetapuicalls down an automatic magical penalty upon the transgressor. The penalty for stealing from property protected by the cocoanuttapuiis boils.
[17]The ceremonial name of the council house of the Tui Manu’a.
[18]The sacred oven of food and the ceremony accompanying its presentation and the presentation of fine mats to the carpenters who have completed a new house.
[19]The ceremonial call of the young men of the village upon a visiting maiden.
[20]The ceremonial perquisite of the talking chief, usually a piece of tapa, occasionally a fine mat.