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370 370 TRANSACTIONS AT powerful claimant*. Apprehensions were also entertained respecting the young chief Voogi, who assisted in strangling the child, for though it was not supposed he would lay claim to the sovereignty, yet being known to be strongly in the interest of Toobo Toa, his conduct required to be strictly watched. These were the chiefs, whose behaviour at this moment the young prince had to notice with a watchful eye. He had considerable confidence, however, in the sincerity of his uncle : Toobo Toa was attheHa- pai islands : — Voona and Voogi therefore were the two whose designs he had most immediately to be apprehensive of. Such was the state of political affairs at the time of Finow's death. As soon as his body was deposited on the bales of gnatoOy as before mentioned, one of his daughters, a beautiful girl of about fifteen, who stood by at the time, went almost frantic with excess of sorrow. The expressions of her grief were at first in loud and Toobo Nuha, but by different mothers. Finow's lengthened name was Finow Ooloocalala. The proper family name is iFinow, but no member of the royal family is allowed to as- sume the family name till his appointment to the sovereignty, unless his father choose to give it him as a sort of first name, to which his own proper name is attached, as was the case with Finow's brother, who was called Finow Fiji.
 * Finow originally had two brothers, viz. Finow Fiji, and