THE GREAT PEARL FISHERY OF 1905. 



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Captain Donnan, and Mr. Hornell, in the " Lady Havelock." When I read of 

 these oysters in the Reports of Mr. Lewis and Mr. Hornell, I at once recollected 



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Fig. 2. Captain DoNNAN's outlines and positions 

 of the Modragams (KM. and S.M.) and Cheval 

 Paar (Ch.) in relation to Kutiramalai Point 

 (K.P.), the Shoal Buoy (S.B.). The positions of 

 the dredgings made from the " Lady Havelock " 

 on March 17th, 1902, are shown by the four 

 crosses lying to the south-east of the South 

 Modragam. Scale one-fourth of an inch to the 

 nautical mile. 



Fig. 3. Mr. Hornell's sketch-plan of the fishing 

 ground of 1905, reduced to the same scale as 

 fig. 2, one-fourth of an inch to the nautical mile. 

 The thick lines show the areas fished, the thin 

 line in the South-east Cheval the area with 

 oysters over three years old left unfisherl, and 

 the dotted line in the South Modragaru the 

 ground occupied by oysters six months old. 

 Below that is the large area which Mr. Hornell 

 has called the " Kutiramalai Paar." 



the occasion, and on turning to my notes I find (see this Report, Part I., ' Narrative,' 

 p. 84, published in 1903) : 



" After rejoining Captain Donnan and the inspection boats in the South Cheval 

 district, we took four hauls of the dredge between the South Modragam Paar and 

 Kodramallai Point. These may be united as Station LXIV. From between South 

 Modragam and Jaggerboom Paars, along a line south-east towards Kodramallai Point ; 

 depth 4 \ to 5^ fathoms ; bottom coarse sand, with much fine green weed and small 

 pearl oysters." 



" The fine green weed from the bottom had very young spat of pearl oysters on it. 

 The small oysters dredged were 8 or 9 months old, and were in quantity at about 

 3^ miles off Kodramallai Point." I had brought Sir W. Twynam from Jaffna that 



