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population dwelling entirely on boats or rafts on the 
rivers and canals, find their chief sustenance in fish or 
water-fowl. The tribes of Beloochistan feed almost 
entirely upon fish, and fish boiled or dried is even 
given to the cattle during times of scarcity. The 
Tartar tribes of Siberia and Central Asia, the 
Esquimaux, Coreans, Greenlanders, the coast tribes 
of North America, and the Indian races of both North 
and South America, as well as some of the Aboriginal 
tribes of Australia and New Zealand, live almost 
entirely upon fish diet. In some cases it is consumed 
in a raw state, as in Hawaii, where a meal is thus 
described by M. Ruschenberger :—“ The earth floor 
was covered with mats, and groups of men squatted 
in a circle, with gourd plates before them. They ate 
of the raw fish, occasionally sopping the torn animal 
in salt water, as a sauce, then sucking it.” The diet 
of the inhabitants of New Guinea is described by 
Admiral Moresby as consisting of “ Roots, fruits of 
trees, vegetables, &c., but chiefly fish caught in holes 
in the bed of the river.’ Again, “fish of all sorts 
is everywhere so plentiful along the shore that they 
may be caught with the greatest ease in uncommon 
abundance.” 
That fish diet is conducive to the health and Fish diet 
stamina of the people is shown by the opinion of the een . 
people expressed by a traveller who says, “They (the 
Papuans) have a large stature beyond European, and 
larger than that of a people of more miscellaneous 
diet.” This latter statement is quite in agreement 
with the opinion of fish diet expressed by Dr. Davey, 
who directed much attention to the subject, and thus 
sums up his results: “In no class than that of fishers 
