Note 8 — CONTENTS.

After eating, the water was diverted, so that it would flow towards the ha, by banking up the head so that the water would rise and flow over the ha. The value of this was only for the time of a freshet, when the oopus were taken by the water and stranded on the ha where it was protected by the bank on either side. The owner of the ha waited until the first fish was caught which fish was thrown aside,8 for that was the custom; for if it were not cast aside, that which had been prepared would become useless, for it would be torn by the water from the head to the rear and become good for nothing.