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tained therein until used. This advantage of a supply on hand 
might well have suggested the enlargement and alteration of the 
shape of fish traps for use as fish ponds, the present simple walled 
structure constituting the latter, being the natural result of economy 
of labor. However, this explanation drawn from local conditions 
can hardly be taken as a guide to priority of age of the fish traps 
now remaining at Pearl Harbor in comparison with the fish ponds 
of these islands, as both are well developed forms fully adapted for 


FIG. 9. OUTER WALL OF PAKULE, LOOKING SOUTH. 
their respective uses, and existed in full operation at the same 
time side by side. It is not improbable that they owe their origin 
to a time prior to the advent of the Polynesians to these islands, and 
it would be interesting to observe what advances in these directions 
the southern Polynesians had made. ‘The similarity of type of the 
fish traps at Pearl Harbor seems to indicate a familarity with some 
previously known form, though they may also have been copied 
from one original in Pearl Harbor, in which case that on Bishop 
Point was probably the first, followed in order of time by those at 
Puleou, Keanapuaa and Hammer Point, judging from the marine 
growth and condition of the walls. 
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