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time, and at the end of the dry season, when the grass was 

 iDurned, there was a bigger hunt ; but there was not enough 

 game to make it a serious business. The hunting grounds of 

 the islanders wero at Mogiibo Point, on the mainland, opposite 

 their island, but they were not very good hunters ; they did 

 not use the big nets used for catching boar and wallaby, and 

 they were thus deprived of the most efficient means of securing 

 the game. The different clans of Mailu village are said to 

 have had, even in the olden days, their different hunting 

 grounds. 



Thus the Bodeaho used to hunt in a district called 

 Bodat umu, the Urumoga in Gehedi, the Maraduhu at and 

 near Mogiibo Point, the Mord'u on Magarida and the Oraido 

 on Iriina. This statement does not mean, however, tliat the 

 clan would hunt by itself, with the exclusion of the others 

 from the sport and economic advantages; as far as I was 

 able to ascertain it means only that individual clans used to 

 take the initiative and invite the others to partake in the 

 hunt on the clan's grounds. 



Hunting was much, more important for the mainland 

 Magi, who could not depend upon fishing, and these used to 

 hunt with the large nets. There was, of course, individual 

 action as well in spearing the wallaby ; but the most important 

 method was a collective hunt with nets and drivers. There 

 was only one name used for hunting, or, rather, two words 

 used indiscriminately — Laiva and Afdna. Hunting con- 

 nected with grass burning was carried on, but not on a very 

 large scale, owing to the restricted extent of grassland in the 

 Mailu district. 



The hunting of the larger game was done with nets, of 

 which there were two kinds. The pig nets (Lova) were made 

 of thin, but strong, rope fVdru), with very large meshes, so 

 that when a pig ran into them it got its head entangled in 

 them. The wallaby nets (En) were made of much thinner 

 eord, and had fairly small meshes, just large enough to allow 

 the wallaby to push its head through. 



During the hunt the nets were set up by means of sticks 

 attached to both ends, and there was usually a supporting 

 stick in the middle. In order to make them more resistant, 

 strings, passing from the tops of the end supports, were tied 

 to a log or stone. The pig nets were set so that they joined 

 each other, end to end, in a curved line, thus presenting a 

 continuous barrier. The men, armed with spears and with 

 the hand boar trap (Koria), stood on the inside of the curve, 

 close to the nets, and the outer ends of the curve were closed 

 by a line of men, who by shouting and making a noise drove 

 the pigs on to the line of nets. Charging blindly, they 



