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single canoe, are rowed briskly over the waves. The 

 rod is held so that the hook shall just skim the 

 tops of the billows ; the albacore or bonito, deceived 

 by the resemblance, leaps after the fancied Flying- 

 fish, and finds itself a prey. Twenty or thirty large 

 fishes are occasionally taken by two men in this 

 manner, in the course of a morning. 



A still more ingenious mode of deception is prac- 

 tised upon these large fishes, by employing a swift 

 double canoe, from the bows of which projects into 

 the air a long curved pole resembling a crane. At 

 some distance from the end this divides into two 



Angling in a Double Canoe. 



branches, which diverge from each other. The foot 

 is secured in a sort of socket between the two canoes, 

 and is so managed that the ends of the pole are 



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