ned to tell us
many things. Yet at night-time he would always come to my father's house
and sit with him and talk, and sometimes Uluvao would make kava for him
and my father.

"At about the end of the second year, there came a whaleship, and
Tuialo, and the white man, whom we called _Tui-fana,_ 'the gun-mender,'
went out to her, and took with them many pigs and yams to exchange for
guns and powder. When the buying and selling was over, the captain of
the ship gave Tui-fana a gun with two barrels--bright was it and new,
and Tuialo, the chief, was eaten up with envy, and begged his white man
for the gun, but he said: 'Nay, not now; when we are in the house we
will talk.'

*****

"Like as a swarm of flies, the people gathered round the council-house
to see the guns and the powder and the swords that had been brought from
the ship. And in the middle of the house sat Tui-fana with the gun with
two barrels in his hand.

"When all the chiefs had come in and sat down Tuialo came. His face was
smiles, but his heart was full of bitterness towards Tui-fana, and as he
spoke to the people and told them of the words that had been spoken
by the captain of the ship, he said, 'And see this white man, this
Tui-fana, who hath grown rich among us, is as greedy as a Tongan, and
keepeth for himself a new gun with two barrels.'

"The white stood up and spoke: 'Nay, not greedy am I. Take, O chief, all
I have; my house, my mats, my land, and the wife thou gavest me, but yet
would I say, "Let me keep this gun with the two barrels."'

"Tuialo was eaten up with greed, yet was his mind set on the gun, so he
answered, 'Nay, that were to make thee as poor as when thou comest to
us. Give me the gun, 'tis all I ask.'

"'It is not mine to give,' he answered. Then he rose and spoke to the
people. 'See,' said he, 'Tuialo, the chief, desires this gun, and I say
it is not mine to give, for to Lauati did I promise such a gun a year
gone by. This, then, will I do. Unto Tuialo will I give my land, my
house, and all that is mine, but to Lauati I give the gun, for so I
promised.'

*****

"Then fierce looks passed between the chief and the white man, and the
people surged together to and fro, for they were divided, some for the
fear of the chief, and some for the love of the white man. But most
were for that Lauati should keep the gun. And so Tuialo, seeing that the
people's hearts were against him, put on a smooth face, and came to the
white man and