THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 313 
single canoe, are rowed briskly over the waves. The 
rod is held so that the hook shall just skim the 
tops of the billows; the albacore or bonito, deceived 
by the resemblance, leaps after the fancied Flying- 
fish, and finds itself a prey. Twenty or thirty large 
fishes are occasionally taken by two men in this 
manner, in the course of a morning. 
A still more ingenious mode of deception is prac- 
tised upon these large fishes, by employing a swift 
double canoe, from the bows of which projects into 
the air a long curved pole resembling a crane. At 
some distance from the end this divides into twe 
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ANGLING IN A DovBLz CANOE. 
branches, which diverge from each other. The foot 
is secured in a sort of socket between the two canoes, 
and is so managed that the ends of the pole are 
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