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Inter tribal fighting, whether for offence or defence, has 
been conducted from canoes capable of holding two or 
three persons, their weapons being guns, harpoons, spears, 
and clubs. So uncertain are they of safety, and so appre- 
hensive of danger, that they keep, when travelling, secured 
against the sides of the canoes, guns and a quantity of 
ammunition. Their beds are similar to what is usually 
enjoyed even on land, viz., a reed or fibre mat, on the bare 
floor. 
Polygamy exists, but wives and children live in separate 
houses from husbands. On invitation a particular wife will 
join her husband, and on such occasion, generally at night, 
paddle her own canoe to him, and convey—the rule—his 
evening meal. 
Having now dealt as far as space will allow me with 
the coast line, I will refer to the islands. 
Canary Islands. 
I know of only two systematically and profitably pur- 
sued industries on this coast to which I would make 
allusion in this Paper, viz, the “cod and bream” fishery 
of the Canaries, and the whaling of the African Atlantic. 
Of the former, the fishing-ground may be considered as 
lying between the Canaries, Cape Verde islands, and like 
latitudes on the African coast, or from 14° or 15° to 32° or 
33° N. lat. the favourite site being between the island of 
Fuerto Ventura, Cape’ Bojador, and Cape Blanco. 
Much attention has of late been directed to these waters, 
and a source of considerable wealth no doubt presents 
itself. It has been advanced—an open question—that 
there is more fish .between these islands than around the 
coasts of Newfoundland. M. Berthelot, in a work on the 
Canary fishery, came to the conclusion that the quantity 
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