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in England. They are also used either in securing shrimps 
out of the shrimp-baskets, or under grassy banks of land- 
sheltered waters for shell-fish. 
Matting or grating, called in Popo language “ Gba,” made 
of split bamboo, secured by tie-tie. 
This matting is very generally used in shallow water, to 
encircle fishing or good feeding ground covered at high 
tide, or for encircling floating “grass islands” (really 
portions of grassy bank eaten and carried away by current 
or floods), which are first anchored, and which fish make a 
favourable resort as a feeding-ground; or in making pas- 
sages into which to allure fish by means of the additional 
attraction of baited fish-traps at their ends. 
The floating islands are not regarded as “flotsam and 
jetsam.” Each can be secured by any person, whose pro- 
perty it then becomes ; he stakes it and allows it to remain 
as a feeding-ground for some weeks, after which he encircles 
it with bamboo grating as described; the “island” is then 
cut to pieces and thrown out over the grating which is 
next gradually contracted so as to bring the fish enclosed, if 
any, within small compass, when such as may have been 
entrapped are removed by one of the hand-nets already 
described. This practice is also applied to grassy banks, 
Passages 3 or 4 feet wide are also cut of considerable 
length into low-lying ground or marshy places; such are 
filled at the flood, when the entrances are blocked by 
bamboo grating. On the ebb the passage is free from 
water, and the fish collected. 
Manatee-trap, called in Popo language “ Whanh,” generally 
erected in sheltered water 4 to 6 feet deep, and near 
or on the slope of a river or lagoon bank. Briefly 
described it is a harpoon of heavy wood tipped with 
