The Fishermen.

Here there is a reference to the abundance of whitebait or inanga, which was caught in great quantities in the old days, in fine-meshed nets, before the voracious trout became plentiful. The inanga was dried and preserved in taha, or calabashes—the hue and vegetable gourd—and in bark containers. Koura or crayfish too were in plenty, and there were scores, in fact hundreds, of posts sunk in the shallow lake bed as mooring places for the nets. They catch koura there still, in many places, each of which has its special name and its owners.