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with nets, and some fifty men plunged into the water 

 and took up positions about six feet from one 

 another outside the nets surrounding the pool. 

 In a moment all was life and animation. Dug- 

 outs and rafts and youngsters on logs of wood 

 suddenly made their appearance and took up 

 places outside the nets. These were gradually 

 worked in towards the landing place. The men 

 would dive down and shift the bottom of the 

 nets a few feet at a time, taking particular care 

 to see that while the net was passing over the 

 rocks at the bottom of the pool, there was no 

 passage left unguarded by the meshes. The 

 Jhoras, by the way, are splendid divers and 

 swimmers. I believe they can keep longer under 

 water than even the amphibious Somali diving 

 boys so familiar to steamship travellers at Aden. 

 As the space becomes contracted by the gradual 

 approach of the nets, the water within the pool 

 appears to be alive with fish. One particular kind, 

 called locally the rowee, leaps clean out of the 

 water for many feet and frequently falls into the 

 canoes and rafts outside the line of nets. The 

 eager rush of the occupants to secure the prize 

 often upsets the frail craft and pitches its freight 

 into the water. But this only excites bursts of 

 laughter from the assembled crowd. On the 

 shore too all is excitement. Men and boys 

 armed with bows and arrows shoot the larger 

 fish as they show at the surface. The head of 

 the arrow is a trident, and to the arrow is 

 attached a long string, which serves to draw in 





