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Te Pito Te Henua, Or Easter Island

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« Reply #555 on: March 22, 2010, 11:23:01 am »

Within a few feet of the old temple is an ancient tomb covered with a large block of stone and marked by an upright basaltic column. Samoan legends do not give much information about this ruin, but the Tongan traditions told that the temple was built by them, after they had conquered the Samoans, and that the tomb is that of one of the Tui-Tongas who accompanied the successful expedition, and who died and was buried alongside of the temple. This conquest took place it least eight hundred years ago, for it was about this time that Malietoa I. was

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made king, for his bravery and success in freeing his country from the Tongan yoke.

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