Note 69 — PREFACE. (continued 6)

6. The awa net. This net is called mahae, the meaning thereof being four fingers in a bunch may be run through a mesh. It is three times forty fathoms long and three fathoms high. Encircling is the method applied in this kind of fishing, with a canoe at either end and moving in a circle until the fish which collect at one place are caught, because it is the habit of this fish, the awa,69 to eat sea moss together at the same place; and while feeding indifferently on sea moss was the time of its being surrounded. The awa is a large fish, its body being a muku (four and a half feet), or a yard, and so on in length.