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circle, when one of the co-operators présentée! a fish to each of us, asking nothing in return, 

 from which I concluded thèse fish vvere not his property at that moment, but they must be con- 



Fig. 104. Fishery in Jôtëfa Bay; speaving fish inside thé enclosing nets. 



sidered as a gift from the community. Another day a violent dispute arose at Tobâdi, one of 

 the partners of a fishing party having kept back some fish in his boat. It is obvious from 



Fig. 105. Fishery in Jôtëfa Bay; taking in a net. 



those two facts, that only after the distribution every partner has the free disposai of 

 his own share, and can ofter the fish for sale, fresh or smoked. Every now and then fish was 

 brought to the members of the expédition, generally by the chief of Tobâdi, but always as a 



