Note 33 — PREFACE. (continued 7)

Kapa makes good material for the body of a flying kite, with hau for its cross-sticks. The kite is a fathom long and four and a half feet in width. Twenty times forty fathoms of cord are used, the tail being fifteen fathoms long. To start it two men are required to hold it, with a wooden stake. When the kite flies it is lost sight of in the sky and wet by the mist;33 the frame is not so. If the cord breaks the kite drops into the sea.