Identifier: easternpacificla00chri (find matches)
Title: Eastern Pacific lands ; Tahiti and the Marquesas islands
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Christian, F. W. (Frederick William), b. 1867 Rouse, Martin Luther Ranfurly, Uchter John Mark Knox. 5th earl of, 1856-
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Publisher: London : R. Scott
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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a-tabu there are some finespecimens of Ito in the Mua district overshadowingthe Langis or tombs of the Tui-Tongas or old Kings ofthe land. Like the Marai of Papara, they were builtof great square coral blocks. The Tongan buildersquarried them out at Lefunga, an island in theFiji group nearly 200 miles away, and brought themdown in big double canoes. The Tahitians,though no longer great navigators, are all keenfishermen, and the sport of Izaak Walton is highlyhonoured amongst them, whether practised with along bamboo rod fitted with a hook and line, or withthe fly fish-hook which they make out of pearl-shellwith a tuft of feathers or wisp of vegetable fibreaffixed, or with the more primitive hook of plainbone or stone. Tahitian fishes are a wondrous andparti-coloured host. Some of their names arequaint and pretty: Hlimit, the leather-jacket ;Aahi, the albicore; Totara, the hedgehog fish;Pirara, the skip-jack ; Uroaa, the cavally, etc.It is curious to remark how universally the commoner
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Scenery and Topography 65 fish names agree in the languages all over the Pacificarea. Marara, Par or 0, Malolo, Maoo, the flying-fish ; Heke, Feke, Eke, Wheke, the cuttle-fish;Tahora, Tafola, Toora, the whale ; Atu, the bonito ;Honu, Onu, Vonu, Fonu, the turtle ; Parata, Polata,Peata, the red shark ; Mango, Mano, Mako, thetiger-shark; Fai, Whai, Hai, Ai, the skate or sting-ray. Then again the technical terms used in con-nexion with the craft : Maunu, Mounu (MicronesianPaan, Maan), bait; Matira, Ohe, a fishing-rod ;Mataa, a fish-hook ; hi, to catch with hook and line(especially Atu or bonito); Rao: Ao, Sao, to catchin nets or baskets; Kupenga, Upenga, Upea, afishing net; Lau, Ran, Au, a seine net. Another mode of fishing was by an elaborate systemof nets and stakes, especially along the flats of thePapara district at low tide. On great occasions thepeople of a whole district will combine to draga gigantic seine net across the entrance of a narrowbay or inlet, and great is the commotion

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