30 Director's Annual Report. 
In 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. ‘They 
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, EASTERN HALF. 
built in one night by the Menehune—gnomes—many years ago. 
The Menehune belief is frequently met with on these islands, and 
to the constructive 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 Ewa chief, Keaunui, 
son of Maweke, about twenty-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 ingenuity exercised in build- 
ing these weirs. ‘The writer is inclined, however, to surmise the 

3Polynesian Race, vol. ii, p. 48. 
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