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men are satisfied. As fish is the natural food of 

 these birds, the difficulty is to restrain them from 

 eating, for which purpose they fasten a string 

 round their necks, so slack as to suffer them to 

 breathe ; when the bird has done fishing for his 

 master, the cord is taken off, and it fishes for it- 

 self. Smith's Wonders. 



Fishing in China. One of the common prac- 

 tices is to place a board painted white along the 

 edge of the boat, which, reflecting the moon's 

 rays into the water, induces the fish to spring to- 

 wards it, supposing it to be a moving sheet of 

 water, when they fall into the boat. 



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Columbus is said to have observed, in the course 

 of his voyage among the West India Islands, 

 some natives fishing in a canoe. He was struck 

 with the means they adopted, which was nothing 

 more or less than a sucking fish, which they al- 

 lowed themselves to fasten to a fish, and thus 

 drew them both out of water. 



Method of Fishing in Congo. The mode of 

 fishing is ingenious ; having fixed on a shallow 

 channel between the shore and a sandbank, a row 

 of stakes is driven across to support a frame of 

 wicker work, about three feet high; a small open- 

 ing is left, in which a trap resembling a bird- 

 ie 



