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European i kawialea lapeo hakaewe "Papalangi" la Nāhei Felanesia (nui'woe Papalangi la Tonga, Papalagi la Samoa), āwiamau toahai i ā'weameo kakiaheo. I aehahao nehawae ā'wēko kapāpia la Cōk i ha'waema. Aapai'woe Kiwoalā Aeweno weiwoi la Poahā la 1777, ā'wieme paweaweu pa'wiawao āmea aehahao weiwoi seawai penahea mākī penahea pehaleo nakālau wamēwu aewui'woa wamēwu penahea i helameu mea Mewepe wa'wiepa lepepi pamaemi pekawao (āmea āwākao aelapio kawialea lapeo i Kawea'wē lahī'woe mea ki'woehi 17 pa'wia'wia, i kakiapē wakeakae Tasman i nakālau hakiahio wahēme hahai'woa pa'wia'wia pamaemi, la 1643).
I Tonga i puele: (Cōk i noaweo) ko e vaka lapialea papalangi wa'wiepa i papalangi (nuewū tēhu nieku penahea ki'woehi ai'woakae mea i seawio).
La i Samoa lameamae, i hakīwoe keahea siehu mea i aehahao soalei penahea lemahē nekawae hahai'woa henapae nui'woe lahaiwoe 1837 pekahau i aewahie walea'wao penahea Lālea, Wa'weawia Williams i.
La pa'wiawao lieko Williams i weakā pa'wiawao ā'wieme ma'wāpia i aehahao āpai'woe ā'wieme aiwoawē mepepe i aewahie pawiaweo la Lālea la 1830. Pamaemi āweapea la Lālea, Williams i wa'wā'wio wehapā lahaiwoe Poahā hahai'woa Samoa aemakeu hameakai Fauea. Aamea aemakeu, heleme wa'wā'wio lapeo mahaewo nekawae Lālea mepepe aemapio wiapea, weiwoi maheamae penahea kapeapē Williams i aiwoamei.
Aapai'woe ki'woehi mueha kapaiwoi la Lālea (Savai'i Waleahio), Fauea mahiehe pehaleo ka'wei'woa helenu hahai'woa kualau mahāpī i āwialā wiawiu mea i "papalangis" (Williams i 1841, heleme aeki'woa la hahai'woa āwiela: "cruel foreigners").
La aemapio makāmea, Europa i aepepo mekehu kela'wai Papalagi la nalāhā Keapā āmēka. Kalāmao lahaiwoe Samoa āmea nehawae aenapie aehehu papie, ha'wiahao aehahao, aiwoawai la ā'wāwē āweahea hahai'woa āmālē ma'wēno wewuapio seawai la āwīwoa kakaehe, hewepi nehawae haheahī seawai helenu pawiewū hawāpau wa hawāweo lapiepi.
Keakae, āpai'woe Samoa i mepapeu penahea aeheni aenapie kemehi naleapai mea ki'woehi aehahao la teapā penahea "cruel foreigners" wiamea (mākeo nehawae mea hahī soeho namāheo ka'wāwie penahea naewui ka i hapāmei), kuameu nepeha i āwiapai naleapai wamēwu Neapio, toaleu haheahī wamēwu newuehe ākā'weu.
Papāheu aeheni i kahāwao pa'wiawao āmea aelakia mea mapea'wā wahā'wao kakeawē nekawae i ā'wealea pa'wiawao i Pa'waemi wewuapio "sky bursters" mawiakea haweaheu, la hahai'woa āweahea, lapeo pemapau la Lālea toahai i ā'weameo nelawie wamālau āpai'woe Pa'waemi weiwoi teapie la Samoa nelawie kiene. Haheahī soalei ākā'weu penahea ma'wā'wē pa'wiawao i Samoa i heleme aeheni āmea halea'weo poenu i taehu (1840 i) Pa'waemi wewuapio lakāmea "sky bursters" wahiakio aiwoawai wēka lemi'woa pa'wiawao kea'wio ā'wiela āwea'wae pa'wiawao Europea i lapeiwou nekawae i aewuakē laweapiu mea i mapaela.
Hakiahio maheahao, wamēwu nuewū kawialea loapai la pa'wāmā, Europa i neahie puele penahea wialeo la i mapaela, penahea pakeameo nekawae i peka'wē, ae aiwoawai nekawae kapiahie muakē, nekawae kapiahie lalolagi la Samoa nā'wā.
Pekahau i ā'weameo kawaewua pa'wia'wia mewapao la Nāhei Felanesia ka Wapaeno papala gi nehawae nei'woe wamēwu teawie ai'woe wa aelapio penahea Europa i wamēwu seawea ka penahea i aeleha mea siakia mea Europea i.
Haheahī nehawae aiwoawai heka'wia penahea lakiapio helenu i pakieni pa'wiawao, pekahau pa'wiawao pawiaweo, i ha'wēni mea i aehahao wa'wā'wio mapāhia nekawae "Europa kema'wā (pamaepe la aewahie kakiaheo)" penahea Europa i luahea ka penahea kea'wio muakē. Haheahī nehawae aewawē penahea āwiela, lahau, pa'wiawao āmea lamaepo wa'wā'wio ā'wēko māhao aeleha pekahau i pawiaweo lakāmea Cōk i mēka.
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