Note 53 — PREFACE. (continued 6)

8. Flying-fish net. This is a large net, being eighteen fathoms long and six fathoms high, and the mouth is twelve fathoms long. This is a fine-meshed net. These are the names of the different kinds of these nets: nukunuku a ula, single mesh, double mesh, triple mesh. Many canoes carry this net, about thirty. Sometimes one canoe carries the net; sometimes five, and so on. The net canoe leads with six men aboard; the paddle-men are called “flying-fish paddlers.” The canoes are paddled uniformly when encompassing [the fish] without one slacking backward; when near the net the canoes are backed, then the net is drawn in. There are two canoes allotted for receiving the fish, a younger and an elder53 canoe. The younger canoe is the one belonging to the net owner; the elder canoe is that belonging to the paddle men. The tally fish belongs to the wife of the net owner. In the net canoe there are three apportionments; the steersman in the stern of the canoe, the paddler in the bow of the canoe, and the midship paddler. These are the different men who share their apportionment54 with the net owner.