2 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
same.* Tlicse fish-traps, which are still visible to-day, were made with lava 
arranged in a semicircular fashion, with curved walls to ensure a better capture 
of fish. The natives, when asked for a reason for this particular method, say 
“ To make fish silly, ” and it requires very little imagination to understand how 
the fish would wander round and round such an enclosure very much in the same 
fashion as a caged wild beast would parade the narrow limits of its prison home, 
ultimately becoming tired out and “ silly” with its vain endeavours to gain 
the sea and liberty. 
SEA 
Fig. 1 
Vish Trap - Darnlejf Island. 
SOIIDA AT ERUB. 
Soiido’s efforts at Mer having thus been crowned with success, he next 
visited the island of Darnley (Erub), repeating his endeavours to fertilize the 
island, and whilst there he was seen by natives who consulted him about the 
“ evil spirits” believed to have existed in and around the island, with the 
result that he made this god, and left immediately afterward. 
/ 
PATRAETER DEPOSITED ON ERUB. 
The god was deposited in a certain place on the island, so that he might 
be available for purposes of consultation with regard to the removal of the 
evil spirits through the instrumentality of the heads of the clans or tribes. This 
god became very antagonistic towards the evil spirits and demanded their 
removal — each evil spirit being represented by definite stone figures. Obedient 
Stone 
* See A. C. Haddon, Anthropological Expedition, vol. vi. 
