 Only when Fasiapule had shown he was sharper witted than Lafaipana in solving riddles was he able to get the shell and return it to Tonga.This story might be symbolic for the start of a revolt in Samoa by the chiefs Lekapai and Lafaipana, counteracted by Loau Tuputoka and Fasiapule.It would still take a century or so before Sāmoans drove out the last Tongan occupier from their soil.