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engages a number of share-hoklers who go to sea for fishing jointly 

 and catch fish which are divided equally among the share-holders 

 setting aside a share for the net and boat. No coolies are engaged 

 for curing work which is done by their females. 



BIMLIPATAM. KOTHURU AND MONTGOMERIPETA. 



The fishermen are Vada Balajees and Jalaris and are generally 

 poor. Most of the younger men emigrate to Rangoon every year. 

 No middlemen or capitalists are engaged in the business. They 

 cannot afford to con'kict business on a large scale but two or three 

 join together and carry it on in a small way. One of them buys 

 raw fish, another attends to the curing" of it, and a third to the 

 disposa' of the same in the markets, and the profits are divided 

 among them. No hired labour is employed. 



LAWSON'S BAY. 



The fishing- village, consisting of nearly 300 huts with a 

 population of about 1,500, is situated in the northern borders of the 

 Vizagapatam Municipality. The huts are circular, made of mud 

 walls and palmyra thatch, and congregated in the most irregular 

 manner with hardly any space between them. The village is 

 surrounded and overgrown with prickly-pear, and when fire breaks 

 out, as it often does, owing to the close proximity of the huts, the 

 people find it very difficult to get out of danger. Speaking about 

 the desirability of sending their children to school one of the 

 fishermen said that they would be more grateful to the authorities 

 if measures are taken to clear the village site of the prickly-pear 

 than if they opened a school there. The sanitary condition is also 

 very defective and the people not being cleanly are careless of 

 their dirty surroundings. They are generally poor but it appears 

 that they were much better off before the introduction of the salt 

 tax when they utilized salt-earth for curing fish ; even now they 

 believe that fish cured with salt-earth is more tasty and can be kept 

 for a longer period than fish cured with ordinary salt. Vadas and 

 Jalaris are the people who carry on sea fishing in this neighbour- 

 hood and Vadiloo are traders in fresh fish who buy fish on the 

 beach and carry it for sale to markets in the interior. The ticket- 

 holders are mostly females and no hired labour is employed. 

 Fishermen though poor do not borrow money for their business. 

 They are a hard-working people and earn a decent income but 

 owing to their intemperate, habits are always poverty-stricken. 

 Some of the able-bodied men emigrate to Burma. 



SRIRANGAPURAM. 



This village is situated within the limits of the Vizagapatam 

 Municipality and contains about 600 huts with a population of 

 nearly 3,000 souls. The huts though made of mud walls and thatch 

 are built in rows with some space between the rows forming narrow 

 passages. Vadas and Jalaris are the people who engage in sea 

 fishing, and in addition to fishing a large number of them are also 

 engaged in the landing and shipping business 'of the port and their 

 females serve as ordinary coolies and make coir from coconut 



