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expedition till they find themselves inside. Once inside they 

 cannot return. This basket is left from two days to a week 

 in. a position at the bottom of the sea, when the stones are dis- 

 placed, the basket and its contents are hauled up to the canoe 

 or boat, a door left at the smaller end of the basket is opened, 

 the fish shaken out, and the basket is ready to be replaced in 

 the sea. 



The natives had a very ingenious method of catching oopus, 

 small fresh water fish found mostly in our mountain streams 

 and having the flavor of trout. This was a platform of large 

 logs placed side by side across our larger streams on the 

 mountain slopes. This is put in place towards the end of the 

 dry season when the water is low, and is placed at about or 

 just above high water mark. When the first heavy rains of 

 the season fall, and the streams get full, the water becomes 

 so muddy with the wash from the sloping ground adjoining 

 the banks that the oopus of the whole previous dry season are 

 driven away from their usual haunts in water holes, under 

 large rocks, logs, etc., and are carried down by the hurrying 

 waters. The oopus always try to keep in the surface water as 

 being comparatively clear, and are thus swept in immense 

 quantities onto the platform, and from there into a ditch lead- 

 ing out to a plain where they are gathered up in immense 

 quantities. These oopus are highly prized as they have a 

 very delicate flavor from, it is supposed, having fed on the 

 fallen flowers of the Eugenias, which always line the banks 

 of mountain streams and are known as oopu-ai-lehua (lehua 

 fed oopu), The oopus breed or are hatched in salt water and 

 the young fry ascend the streams to live and grow. The 

 young are known as hinana, scarcely any larger than maggots, 

 and seem to have a special aptitude for getting up almost per- 

 pendicular embankments or water falls. 



Paeaea is fishing with rod, hook and line. There are only 

 seven kinds of fish sought for m the paeaea fishing. The bait 

 most liked is shrimp. Earth worms are sometimes used and 

 any obtainable fry of fish. The fisherman takes a handful of 

 shrimps, baits his hooks, and then, bruising the remainder and 



