204 TREUBIA VOL. Il, 2—4. 
DAY (7) however also mentions bandeng as occurring in tanks of 
fresh and brackish water in South-Canara. 
A few further details about this I found in THOMAS (8), p. 218. 
THOMAS is of opinion that the bandeng occurring in a pond at Cundapur, 
where the: water is only very slightly brackish, must have penetrated into 
that pond as young fry from the adjoining estuary, through a breached 
sluice that has been permanently closed afterwards. According to tradition 
however this bandeng was imported and put into the pond in question at 
Cundapur by Hyder Ali. 
THOMAS (5) also relates how “selecting the month in which he thought 
it most probable that the Chanos salmoneus would enter the estuaries 
to spawn, and allowing time for the fry to hatch and grow before going 
to sea”, he sent a peon to the estuary, not the pond, to catch some fry 
and how the peon found the fry, as predicted. 
If by an “estuary” we have to understand a bight of the sea, narrowing 
towards the interior into a river, or else a wide tidal rivermouth, so in 
any case a transitional region of some extent between the sea and a river, 
where sea-water and fresh water mix, in other words where brackish water 
is found, then, apart from the question as to whether the peon in the case 
reported by THOMAS (8) caught the fry really in the estuary, I must point 
out that in our archipelago the fry of the bandeng is certainly also caught 
in places far removed from anything resembling an estuary. Thus besides 
near Sedari (in Krawang); near Karang Antu (on the Bay of Bantam); near 
Tegal; and between Batang and Kendal, there where the railway runs close 
along the shore, | personally saw on November 4th 1911 at Gayam on 
the island of Sapudi, bandeng-fry being caught in large quantities, Estuaries, 
and brackish water in general, were far to seek in the latter case. For complet- 
eness’ sake | ought however to mention also how Mr. J. Görs, son of the 
well-known Batavia sea-fish-pond-owner Mr. Max H. Th. Görs, emphatically 
stated to me more than once that he had seen bandeng-fry of one to two 
centimetres in length'), swimming against the current from the sea into the 
fishpond-region when he was draining away his fish-pond-water to the sea. 
Mr. Görs Jr. also told me how after one of his ponds near Pegantungan 
(cf. Map I) had been entirely cleared of fish, still a couple of years later he 
found 200 bandeng in it, which in his opinion must have swum spontaneously 
into the pondregion from the sea as fry. 
| already mentioned above how WEBER and DE BEAUFORT (8) state 
bandeng to occur “in sea and estuaries”. This statement induces me to 
remark that personally I am entirely unaware of the occurrence of bandeng 
in the mouths of the (not-large) rivers in the vicinity of Batavia, which 
rivermouths however can hardly be called “estuaries”. Neither had any 
of the native fishermen of whom I inquired, ever come across bandeng in 
eon) ') At Batavia bandeng-fry of this size is sometimes called “daûn assem” (= tamarind 
eaf). 
