import\articles\219\A mass of eels.html indexed_doc HTMLPlugin 683 A mass of eels.html A mass of eels.html en iso_8859_1 A mass of eels HTML http://articles/219/A mass of eels.html http://articles/219/A mass of eels.html -35.691321 35W 69 691 6913 -35.691321 174.286079 174E 28 286 2860 174.286079 HASH01e4078259e262db65741f2f 1360633628 20130212 1360633635 20130212 HASH01e4.dir <h2>A mass of eels</h2><p>Lake Ora, just out of Kamo, was traditionally known as Lake Oara, meaning cooking.  The lake was a rich source of food in the late 1890s, when it was named.</p><p>Mrs Elizabeth Pepene, whose husband is a descendant of early Maori who fished from the lake, tells this story:  &quot;In the old days people used to camp for a week there, eeling.  The menfolk would stay all day catching and drying eels while the women went to Kamo shopping.  The lake was half full in the summer and the men used to go in up to their thighs in thick mud and eels.  Eel would go out by the sackful.&quot; </p>