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object, as are also the fishermen with their quaint garb,. plain 
speech, and their strange songs and calls with the hauling in of 
the net. 
For much information on the fishing apparatus in use in 
Fic. 108.—Fishing for Ayu in the Tanagawa, Japan. Emptying the pouch of 
the cormorant. (Photograph by J. O. Snyder.) 
America the reader is referred to the Reports of the Fisheries in 
the Tenth Census, in 1880, under the editorship of Dr. George 
Brown Goode. In these reports Goode, Stearns, Earle, Gilbert, 
Bean, and the present writer have treated very fully of all eco- 
nomic relations of the American fishes. In an admirable work 
entitled ‘‘American Fishes,’ Dr. Goode, with the fine literary 
