NOTES ON FISHING METHODS OF THE SOUTH SEAS. 749 
the line from being bitten off. If the line were attached directly to the 
hook, few fish would be caught. No ordinary line would last through 
one fishing trial. The hooks are home-made and the workmanship is 
neat, but they of course lack the finish of a machine-made hook. They 
are manufactured out of such iron as may be at hand, old bolts and 
nails being brought into use when better material is not obtainable. 
No wooden or bone hooks were seen, they having disappeared some 
years ago. The fishing lines were machine-made. 
The canoes of this island show no marked difference from those of 
Nukuhiva except that they are all dugouts, with no devices of the white 
man attached, and fall short in workmanship of most of those found 
throughout Alaska. A number of sloop-rigged boats, 25 to 40 feet in 
length, were hauled up on the beach. They call for no special mention, 

Large and Small Adze used in making Canoes, Paumotu Islands. 
having been brought here by white traders. One boat was on the 
stocks about half planked. Her dimensions were: Length over all, 
38 feet; width, 95 feet; depth, 3 feet; timbers, 16 inches apart. ° The 
work displayed was fairly good. Her lines were copied from one of the 
boats lying on the beach. I was informed that she was being built by 
two natives. She had been on the stocks for a long time, as most of 
the material in her indicated. 
MAKATEA ISLAND. 
On the morning of October 6 a collecting party was landed on the 
northwest side of this island. Our collecting was confined to the 
reef, where with difficulty we succeeded in taking a few fish with a 
small Baird seine and a dip net. The reef here is so rough that only 
in a very few places could the seine be hauled, and in the favorable 
