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Manners & Customs of the S. Sea Islands

bottom part of it The shank (a) is made of mother of Pearl the most glossy that can be got the inside or naturaly bright side of which is put undermost as in fig 2. (b) is a tuft of white dogs or hogs hair which serves may be to imitate the tail of a fish These hooks require no bait They are usd with a fishing rod of Bamboo the people who go out with them having found by the flights of birds which constantly attend shoals of Bonetos where they are Paddle their Canoes as swift as they can across them & seldom fail to take some. This Indian invention seems far to exceed any thing of the kind which I have seen among Europaeans & is certainly more successful than any artificial flying fish or other thing which
 

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