Abstract
THE first king of Funafuti was Terematua (? Tilimatua), but who he was or where he came from is not known; it is certain, however, he was here before the arrival of the Kauga, people who swam to this island from Samoa, which means, I take it, Samoans who were wrecked from a canoe and afterwards swam ashore. The Kauga.were much respected. Toa, a piece of land in Funafuti, is named after one of them, and the southernmost island, Tuaeriki, after another: after death they were worshipped as spirits.
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SOLLAS, W. The Legendary History of Funafuti, Ellice Group1. Nature 55, 353–355 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/055353a0
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