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:ui(l then another, and so mi. imlil il is ijiiilc fa-tened ;iiii>ii'_ 

 openings between tin- pirns of tin- cowrie, win n il is drawn up 

 into t he canoe .-mil secured.* 



\ species of Ommastrephes is extensively fished in .Japan. 

 Mr. Arthur Al:ims rel.-ited that oil' Nisi-Uama in the Oki Isl.-unls. 

 \v ;i n 1 1 111 ln-r of lights moving' Upmi t lie slllT;ire of t lie water, ill 

 all direct ions, which he found \vere used to alt ract t lie ce | thai o pod- 

 to tin- >nrface; \\heie they were secured by a ji-'. an iron shank 

 terminated b\ a circle of recurved hooks. Mi-. Adams visited a 

 small fishing village near the llakodadi. where he saw hundreds 

 of thousands of squids, cleaned and stretched on bamboo stick-, 

 suspended on lines to dry in the sun and air. 



The nalives of the New Hebrides. New Caledonia, and t he Fee- 

 gee irroup of islands, capture t he Nan! ilus. and use ii as an article 

 of food. They take them in their lish-falls. in from three to live 

 fathom- of water; thebaii they use is the Kchiuus. 'They are 

 verv fond of ihein. In some of the islands they make a kind of 

 soup of them. At the Island of Ware, about :|() miles from New 

 Caledonia, they are roasted, and uiste like whelks (Buccinum)* 



The I'Yeueans esieem the IVarly Naut ilus highly as an agree- 

 able \ iand. and llieir mode of capturing it for the embers or the 

 pot. is nol a li.lle interesting. \\'hen the water is smooth, so 

 iha; iheboiomat sexcral fathoms of depth, nc'ar the border of 

 the reef, may be disnnctly sei-n. the fisherman in his little frail 

 canoe scru! ini/es die sands and the coral masses below, to dis- 

 cover the animal in its favorite haunts. The c\|u rienced e\e of 

 ihe na,i\e may probably encounter it in its usual posit ion. din^ 

 inu .o >ome prominent Icdi^e. with the shell turned downwards. 

 The tackle coiisi>i>. first, of a lai'^e round wicker-work basket, 

 shaped very much like a cai;v rat-trap, having an opening above, 

 with a circle! of poin 1 s direct e<l inwards, so as to permit of entry, 



bii precbi'ie ex-ape ; secondly, a roii-h piece of native rope, of 

 Mitlicieii! leiiLi'lh t reach the bo ;> om; and thirdly, a small piece 

 of branched wood, with the branches sharpened to forma s ( >rt O f 



l. to which a perforated stone i- attached. aiis\\ erin;: the 

 of a >inker. Tin- basket i- now weighted wit h stones, well- 

 b;dted with boiled cray-lish. and then dropped ireutly down near 



11 LovelTa K.lil.h- Uriti-h Mollu>k>," p. K',7. 



