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Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore, Volume 2 (of 3)

Note 133 — CONTENTS. (continued 3)

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Nor is that all: it is also made into canoes,133 provided a tree large enough to be made into a canoe can be found; but it is not suitable for two or three people, for it might sink in the sea. But it must not be finished into a canoe while it is green; leave it for finishing till it is seasoned, then use it. The outrigger float is made like the wiliwili canoe. When the time comes that the fish auau134 moves in schools, the owner of this wiliwili canoe would go out, followed by others in other kinds of canoes; and when they have caught the fish, they would return, and the man in the wiliwili canoe would divide the fish. That is not all: it is made by some people into tinder to continue the fire, and is used by others for purposes of smoking. This is what I have found out through inquiring among friends. They have told me what they knew, and with what I know has increased it somewhat; perhaps there are many other things, but I do not know what they are. This is all I have found.

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