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kuku of the bag net, forming a guard on each side, and the 

 circle further reduced till the fish are all driven into the net. 

 Upenauluulu (diver's net) is a small bag of two-inch mesh, 

 about two and a half feet across the opening or mouth of the 

 bag, and the same in depth. Two sticks are attached on each 

 side of the opening leaving a space of half a foot in width be 

 tween them. This net is managed by one person only who 

 dives to the small caves and holes in the bottom of the sea, 

 which are always well known to the local fishermen, and plac- 

 ing his net across the opening of the cave or hole, mouth in- 

 wards, he then inserts a slender rod, with a tuft of grass at 

 the end, called a pula, into the hole, and gently drives the 

 fish which may be in there into the open mouth of his net, 

 which, by joining the two sticks together he closes. Then 

 placing his driving stick over the closed mouth as a further 

 preventive, he rises to the surface, and emptying his bag into 

 the canoe, goes to another cave or fish hole where he repeats 

 the operation till tired or satisfied with the quantity caught. 

 The upena uhu is for catching uhu, a very highly prized 

 kind of rock fish of two species, the red and the green. The 

 red varieties, called uhu ula, are the more choice ones for eat- 

 ing raw. The green, called uhu eleele, are not so fine flavored, 

 but attain a larger size. The net for these fishes is a square 

 of two or three inch mesh, which has been slightly gathered 

 on the ropes and attached at the four corners to slender strong 

 sticks tied together at the middle in such a way that they will 

 cross each other at the middle and can be closed together 

 when wanted. When crossed they spread the net open in 

 the form of a shallow bag, a string is tied to the crossing of 

 the two sticks and the net is then ready for operations. A 

 decoy fish, which must have been previously caught with the 

 uluulu or hook and line is then dropped with a string attached, 

 in a place where fish of that kind are noticed or known to fre- 

 quent, and gently moved back and forth, this is called hoo- 

 haehae, " teasing the fish." Every fish of that kind that can 

 see the decoy fish is immediately attracted to see the strange 

 actions of this one, and when all have been attracted that are 



