Walled Fish Traps of Pearl Harbor. 



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is shown in Figs. 4 and 5: A is a piece of indurated mud ; c, a layer 

 of the marine growth above mentioned, one and one-eighth inches 

 thick which has fallen from A since its removal from the water, 

 while b is a piece of basalt nineteen inches high. The dark stones 

 are indicated by arrow points in Fig. 1. 



At the north end of the leader wall is another dark stone 

 about four and one-half feet long and one foot wide and thick. 



A and C B 



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FIG. 4. DARK STONES ON WALLS OF PAKULE. 



It was lying on the bottom of the water when seen, but formerly 

 stood erect. Its name was "Kuula," the Hawaiian fish god. 

 Kuula was a noted fisherman in early days, who has since been 

 deified and is still worshipped on all the coasts of these islands in 

 the shape of stones, sculptured and rough, and in small walled 

 enclosures. His wife Hina is sometimes with him, and in the 

 Pakule she is to be found as a roughly pentagonal slab of coral 

 rock about two and one-half by two feet by eight inches in size, 



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