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Updated: May 6, 2025
When the chiefs and people were ready to go off for weeks to certain places in the bush for the sport of pigeon-catching, offerings of cooked taro and fish were laid on the stones, accompanied by prayers for fine weather and no rain.
What is all this contrivance for these nets and tall masts, with "crows' nests" at their tops? What are the boys doing up there? And what are they about below those men, women, and children a crowd composed of all ages and all sexes? What are they doing? Pigeon-catching. That is what they are doing, or rather what they are aiming to do, as soon as the opportunity offers.
She promised also to give him light in the morning, when he went into the bush at the season of pigeon-catching. Having said this she went up to the heavens, became the planet Venus, which is called Tapuitea. When seen in the morning it is called the Fetu ao, or morning star, and is said to have "crossed the heavens."
Pigeon-catching was another amusement, and one, like our English falconry of other days, in which the chiefs especially delighted. The principal season set in about June.
This descent usually brings them low enough to pass between the trees; and of course the old women soon get their teeth upon them. The pigeon-catching is not free to every one who may take a "fancy" to it.
Yet it is only fair to say that some days after, relating his experience to a prominent sporting man, he corroborated all its details, and satisfied me that my pigeon-catching friend, although unfortunate, was not an impostor. And this leads me to speak of the birds. Of all early risers, my most importunate, aggressive, and obtrusive companions are the English sparrows.
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