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nated to the goddess the variety of fish he prayed for, by means 

 of such stones placed where described. 



Piopio is said to have been the kahuna until 1882 or 1883, 

 followed by Kaanaana until 1889. Then Kimona took charge and 

 operated the Pakule until 1891 when he left to live at Moanalua. 

 Several attempts to resuscitate the fishing have since failed, in 

 1907 no less than three kahunas being called in at different 

 times, and the natives have observed that these three priests have 

 died since their failure, and the man employing them has lost 

 his position ! 



The janitor was once a participant in a catch of fish, when 

 several fishermen asked the kahuna to call in a certain variety. 

 They were told to return the following morning. On their return, 

 the fish were waiting and while the kahuna uttered his prayers 

 by the heating imu, the fishermen surrounded the shoal; leaving 

 the catch in the water itiside the net, they brought one fish — the 

 first — to the kahuna who offered it to Kuula and cooked it in 

 the oven, all the while mumbling his prayers, which the janitor, 

 who was desirous of learning how to do it, could neither hear 

 clearly nor understand. When cooked the fish was partaken of 

 by every one present, and all the remains buried in the oven. 

 Mr. Cartwright has lately informed the writer that there are 

 certain holes in the ledge of rock at Puleou in which, it was said, 

 the fish were cooked, and it is more than probable that similar 

 customs prevailed at the other fish traps, the cessation of the 

 same being due to the overshadowing influence of the larger 

 and better situated Pakule, which is also, as before remarked, 

 probably the most recent. 



The walls of the Pakule and the fenced ground have been 

 refered to as tabu to Kuula. Males and unmarried girls were per- 

 mitted to pass along the walls and through the enclosure, but if 

 any married woman were to trespass in these sacred precincts, a 

 sickness would attend her which would end her life unless cured by 

 Kuula 's kahuna. Another version is that both the woman and 

 the kahuna would die. It might be mentioned that from the walls 

 of fish ponds women were debarred during the period of their 

 menses, the belief being that the fish in the pond would become 

 poor and thin, and the cousecpueuces to the woman, a serious 



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