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According to Reverend George Pratt's A Grammar and Dictionary of the Samoan Language, the tribe names translate as follows:
Foafoa - the Trumpet shell
Galu - to be rough, to break heavily on the reef

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means a conch shell that people use in Samoa in the old days...........

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