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vegetables, and we had all kinds of chickens and goats and things like that.

I remember as a child, when I was on the island of Hawaii, that's where I was born and the big island, and during the Depression we all moved to Maui, because my uncle lived there and had a big place, and also he had all kinds of animals. He had honey bees and he raised honey bees for honey. He had potatoes and he lived right near the ocean, so we could have fish. We had turkey also. And then he had a watercress farm. And he was my mother's brother and they were very sympathetic. My uncle wasn't married and was very fond of my mother and felt sympathetic with all the children, so he invited [us] over, so we all went and stayed with my uncle for a while until we found another place, and another place was not bad at all. It was near the water. It was about five or six miles away, but we had a huge pond with mullet, and as a child, I wasn't a child already, but at certain times of the year, when there'd be schools of fish coming-- mullet being in schools--and we had this brackish water at the river, and then we had our pond. So what we used to do was get a net and scoop the fish and put them in a bucket and run and bring it in our pond. So we used to have mullet about ten inches, and we used to have carp also, but carp were very sacred and could be used only for medicinal purposes. So we didn't have it as food. When we were sick, we used to catch and then boil this to get the fever down or something like this.