Note 9 — CONTENTS.

It was not well to dam up water where the stream was narrow; the best place was where there was a natural division of the water—where some of it flowed on one side and some on the other side. Then in that case the head of one branch was dammed up and all the water was diverted into the other. After the head was dammed up, and that side was dry, then was the time to look for oopus. If one had an apua9 that was placed where there was plenty of water so that when the oopus were being swept along, they would be caught in this. The apua was a basket braided like the traps used in catching fish in the sea; small at the bottom and large at the mouth like that of a bell; and was braided in the form of a funnel.