FISHING 



The magura I don't recognise. 



The lula I have already given a description of. 



The anda is an eel. 



The Petiya are small roach-like fish, not bad eating but 

 bony. 



The kokassa is not unlike a miniature waleya in appear- 

 ance, and is good eating. 



The hungah is a repulsive-looking beast, slimy bodied, 

 something like the waleya ; has long feelers pendent from 

 the mouth, and stings like " blazes." 



The ankutta is another, but smaller " stinger." 



The tittaya, also called in places kudamesso, form the 

 usual live-bait for catching the bigger fish. 



Of the fish of which no dimensions are given I know 

 only the hirakanaya (or kirikana). It is a fish of fair size, 

 not unlike a roach, up to a pound or more in weight good 

 eating but bony. 



Many of the fish can, I believe, lie dormant in the dried 

 mud when all water has evaporated from a pool in the dry 

 season, otherwise how can the fact be accounted for that, 

 after months and months of drought, a shower of rain 

 bringing water to the dried -up pools and hollows causes an 

 almost instantaneous renewal of fish life. 



There is a drainage hollow in the estate I reside on 

 which receives the discharge of a few surface drains from 

 the tea fields only ; yet, during the north-east monsoon, 

 the heavy rains cause the water to stand in this hollow for 

 a few days, or perhaps a couple of weeks, and within three 

 days after a pool is formed small fish are to be seen in it, 

 and my coolies always have a " catch " after the water 

 subsides. 



The same thing may be seen in all streams, pools, 

 tanks, or hollows in the low country which hold water 



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