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late Kamehameha V., whose favorite residence was at Waik'i- 

 ki, frequently ordered the Lau Kapalili. 



We have two kinds of fish ponds or enclosures ; fresh water 

 ones, from half an acre to two or three acres in extent ; and 

 salt water ponds, generally very large and enclosing an area of 

 many acaes. The salt water ponds are of two kinds ; those 

 entirely closed, and in which fish are fed and fattened, and 

 those surrounded by a low wall that is submerged at high tide 

 and has openings, walled on each side like lanes leading in or 

 out of the pond. 



The lanes or fish-runs are from fifteen to twenty feet in 

 length and radiate from the wall inside and out. They are of 

 about two feet in width at the opening in the wall and widen 

 out gradually till they are from eight to ten feet wide at the 

 ends. At night when the tide is coming in, a man, or more 

 frequently a woman takes a small scoop net just wide enough 

 to fill the entrance of the opening and of three or four feet in 

 depth, wades out to the entrance of one of these runs and sit- 

 ting on a raised stone platform on its side, always made for 

 that purpose, holds the net in the water at the enterance of 

 an opening towards the sea. and sits very quiet until a jerk in 

 the net is felt, when it is immediately pulled up before the 

 fish have time to return, and the fish dropped into a gourd or 

 basket, when the net is immediately returned to the water 

 .and waiting and watching are resumed. Two persons generally 

 go to this kind of fishing and sit on opposite sides of the en- 

 trance, so that as one net is raised another one is still there, 

 as under certain conditions of the water and weather, two per- 

 sons will be kept busy scooping up fish as fast as the nets can 

 be lowered. ISTo fish must be allowed to get free as that 

 would put a stop to the fishing at that entrance during that 

 turn of the tide. 



These entrances are favorite stations for the ground sharks 

 of the neighborhood to prey on the fish as they go in or out, 

 and so when the tide is about medium height, the fishing peo- 

 ple return to shore, as their platforms would be entirely sub- 



