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Fig. 1. Tile Collectors in Ennore Backwater covered with Oyster spat 

 deposited during the floods of october 1908. 



Fig. 2. Collecting Edible Ovsters off Cannanore by means of diving. 



Note the small raft-buoy carrying a wand to which are tied small bundles of betel, etc., for 

 the diver's refreshment between dives. 



[Photo, J. Hornell.~\ 



