NOTES ON FISHING METHODS OF THE SOUTH SEAS. 825 
TRUK GROUP. 
Leaving Ponapi on February 12, the A/batross headed for the Truk 
Group—a part of the Caroline Islands nearly 400 miles westward of 
Ponapi. In the afternoon of the 14th the ship lay to off Namo Island. 
and in the evening canoes came off. Torching for fish on the reef and 
beach continued from dark until after midnight. We did not land to 
see the fishing, and it was too dark to examine the canoes that vame off 
te the ship. 
Sailing Canoe, Truk Group. 
The following morning we passed through the outer rim of reefs 
encircling the Truk Group and anchored on the west side of Moen 
Island off the village. Truk Group consists of 13 islands and numer- 
ous islets encompassed by a series of broken reefs 35 miles in diameter. 
Many parts of the rim are submerged with islets between, some of 
which are barely above the surface at high water. The present con- 
dition of the atoll rim seems to indicate that at one time it was wholly 
above high-water mark, but has gradually subsided, leaving only the 
most prominent parts exposed. In most parts the reef is quite wide, 
in a number of places a mile or more, over which are scattered many 
bowlders of old coral rock. 
