Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0445
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[Page 445]
Manners & Customs of the S. Sea Islands
In every expedient for taking fish they are vastly ingenious, their Seines, netts for fish to mesh themselves in &c. are exactly like ours: they strike fish with harpoons made of Cane & pointed with hard wood in a cleaner more dextrous manner than we can do with ours that are headed with Iron for we who fasten lines to ours need only lodge them in the fish to secure it while they on the other hand throwing theirs quite from them must either mortaly wound the fish or loose him Their hooks indeed as they are not made of Iron must be very different from ours in construction They of two sorts first that calld by them Witte witte which is usd for towing of which fig 1 is the profile & fig 2 the view of the
[See image for Fig. 1 and Fig. 2.]