And the process of election to the chief power is a mystery.
Certain provinces have in their gift certain high titles, or _names_, as they are called.

These can only be attributed to the descendants of particular lines.

Once granted, each name conveys at once the principality (whatever that be worth) of the province which bestows it, and counts as one suffrage towards the general sovereignty of Samoa.

To be indubitable king, they say, or some of them say,--I find few in perfect harmony,--a man should resume five of these names in his own person.

But the case is purely hypothetical; local jealousy forbids its occurrence.