It happened many years ago, before the traders and missionaries first came to the South Seas, while the Polynesian s were still great in numbers and fierce of heart. But even today of Hikueru song this story in thier chants and tell it over the evening fires. It is the story of mafatu, the Boy Who Was Afraid.
They worshipped courage, those early Polynesians. The spirit which had urged them across the pacific in their sailing canoes, before the down going mor caring what their fate might be, still was only courage. A man who was afraid -- what place had he in their midst? And the boy mafatu -- son of tarana nui, the great chief of hikueru -- always had been afraid. So the people drove him forth. Not by violence, but by indifference.
Safari went out alone to face the thing he feared the most. Story on their chands and tell it over the evening fires.
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Call It Courage
AdventureBy Armstrong Sperry This is about a boy named mafatu and how he finds courage, he's name means staut heart.
