This cone or cylinder is quite small at the free end, just large 

 enough for tha kala to get in. Immediately below the end of 

 this cone, on the bottom of this basket is placed the bait, 

 properly secured, which in the case of the kala is limu kala (a 

 coarse brownish yellow alga on which this fish feeds and from 

 which it takes its name), ripe bread fruit, cooked pumpkins, 

 and half roasted sweet potatoes, and papayas. This basket is 

 called the ie lawe (taking basket). The fishermen generally 

 feed the fish at a given place for a week or more before tak- 

 ing any, using for this purpose a large basket of the same 

 kind without the inverted cylinder, and wider in the mouth, to 

 allow the fish free ingress and egress. After a week or two 

 of feeding they become very fat and fine flavored, as also very 

 tame, and baskets full of fish can be drawn up in the taking 

 basket without in the least disturbing" those which are still 

 greedily feeding in the feeding baskets. These baskets are 

 occasionally used for other kinds of fish, substituting the bait 

 known to attract that particular kind, but never with the same 

 decree of success as with kala. 



The Gilbert Islanders have of late years introduced fishing 

 with a basket in a manner different from any formerly prac- 

 tised by Hawaiians. This is an oblong basket called by these 

 people a punger, larger at one end than another, with a flat 

 and oval top r convex like a carriage top, and gradually 

 sloping to the small end. A cone with the end cut oft' is in- 

 serted at the large end, the body of the cone being insi'de of 

 and opening into the basket. A trap door is fixed on the end 

 of the cone in such a manner that it will open by a touch from 

 the outside, but cannot be pushed open from the inside. The 

 basket is taken to a good sandy place in two to four fathoms 

 water, where there is plenty of coral or stones handy. The 

 fisherman then dives and places the basket in the exact posi- 

 tion he wishes; he then takes pieces of coral rock and begins 

 to build up and around the basket, enclosing it completely with 

 stones so as to form an artificial dark retreat for the fish. The 

 entrance to the cylinder or cone is left exposed, and the fish 

 seeing an inviting entrance to a dark place go on an exploring 



