30 Director's A?niua/ Report. 



Ill landing the catch, the shoal was allowed to enter the pen, 

 when the fish, probably finding themselves entrapped, congregated 

 in the deep water of the pocket. Soon, no doubt following the 

 tide, they moved toward the closed side of the pen, when a small 

 seine was drawn across the entrance from a point about the middle 

 of the outer wall and their return to deep water barred. Thej^ 

 were then drawn ashore through the shallow water. 



The name of the builder of the fish traps has not come down 

 to us, but the natives living thereabout say that the Pakule was 



Fig. 7. THE PAKULE, E.A.STERN HAI.E. 



built in one night by the Menehune — gnomes — many years ago. 

 The Menehune belief is frequently met with on these islands, and 

 to the constru(5live ability of these mythical people is attributed 

 today many of the earlier works of the Hawaiians. Ancient Ha- 

 waiian history records little more than the genealogies and wars, 

 but Fornander^ mentions that an enterprising Kwa chief, Keaunui, 

 son of Maweke, about twent3'-six generations ago, accomplished 

 the task of widening and deepening the channel of the harbor, 

 which was without doubt no mean undertaking. To such a chief 

 might perhaps be given credit for the ingenuit}' exercised in build- 

 ing the.se weirs. The writer is inclined, however, to surmise the 



^Polynesian Race, vol. ii, p. 4S. 



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