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the most glossy that can be got, the inner or naturally 
bright side being put undermost. In Fig. 2, d is a tuft of 
white dog’s or hog’s hair, which serves, maybe, to imitate 
the tail of a fish. These hooks require no bait: they are 
used with a fishing-rod of bamboo. The people having 
found by the flight of birds, which constantly attend shoals 
of bonitos, where the fish are, paddle their canoes as swiftly 
as they can across them, and seldom fail to take some. 
This Indian invention seems far to exceed anything of the 
kind that I have seen among Europeans, and is certainly 
more successful than any artificial flying fish or other thing 
which is generally used for taking bonitos. .So far, it 
deserves imitation at any time when taking bonitos is at all 
desirable. 
The other sort of hook which they have is made likewise 
‘of mother-of-pearl, or some hard shell, and as they cannot 
make them bearded as our own, they 
supply that fault by making the points 
turn much inwards, as in the annexed 
figure. They have them of all sizes, 
and catch with them all kinds of fish 
very successfully, I believe. The manner of making them 
is very simple; every fisherman makes them for himself. 
