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its body and use it as a lamp. This oil is also one of the 

 principal articles exported from the island. It is found 

 in the birds' stomachs, is amber-colored, and has a peculiar- 

 ly nauseous odor. The old birds are said to feed the young 

 with it, and when they are caught or attacked they lighten 

 themselves by disgorging it. 



In St. Kilda it is legal to kill the fulmars only during 

 one week of the year; but during that week from eighteen 

 to twenty thousand birds are slaughtered. 



The mutton-bird of the Antartic also carries its oil in 

 the stomach and can eject this, oil through the nostrils as a 

 means of defense against enemies. Quantities of mutton- 

 birds are slaughtered every year for their oil on the coasts 

 of Tasmania and Xew Zealand. In its composition and 

 properties this oil resembles very greatly the oil of the 

 sperm-whale. 



Tackle For Tarpon: 



A tarpon pole should be about seven feet long and made 

 of carefully selected pieces of bamboo, greenheart, or some- 

 thing similar. The guides should be very smooth and all 

 precaution must be taken to prevent the wearing of the line. 

 The reel must be carefully examined, and big enough to 

 carry six hundred feet of line. A reel of inferior quality is 

 apt to jam as soon as subjected to a great strain, and no one 

 should ever try to economize in purchasing this part of the 

 outfit. Hooks, too, must be of the best workmanship, as 

 the mouth of th tarpon consists of almost solid bone, and it 

 takes a good hook, indeed, 'to find lodgment in one's mouth 

 and hold fast. For trolling, piano wire leaders are used, 

 which seldom break under the heaviest strain, to which 

 should be attached the best hooks you can buy. The leaders 

 should be six feet in length. 



Besides the nuts used in confectionery, the Indian 

 cashew tree yields an insect-repelling gum, a juice that 

 makes indelible ink and three kinds of oil, one edible, the 

 ethers used to tan fishing nets and preserve wood. 



