FISHES. 



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perhaps three or four inches in length. Those 

 used in taking Sharks are formidable-looking 

 weapons ; some are a foot or fifteen inches long, 

 exclusive of the curvatures, and not less than an 

 inch in diameter. They are such frightful things, 

 that no fish, less voracious than a Shark, would 

 approach them. In some the marks of the Sharks 

 teeth are numerous and deep, and indicate the 

 effect with which they have been used."* 



POLYNESIAN FISHING-TACKLE. 



The accompanying engraving represents many 

 forms of hooks made of all these materials, as 

 well as a net, a barbed spear, and a line armed 

 with Shark's teeth, all copied from specimens 



'- Ellis. 



