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If the haul was bigger than the needs of the village, the overplus was sent to the market in Papeete, or kept in huge anchored, floating baskets of wicker. These fishermen had been heart and soul in the tahatai oneone, the fish strike, and when we had poor luck, often the best spearsman led the clan in the air taught them by the leader whom they remembered with pride and affection: Hayrahrooyah!
I'm a boom! Hayrahrooyah! Boomagay! They associated the air and words with the fish, and deep down in their primitive hearts thought it an incantation, such as their tahutahu, the sorcerers of the island, spoke of old. "Tellee haapao maitai! Kelly was a wise man!" they would lament. Every one used a fine casting-net when fishing alone along the shores.
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