HUNTING AND FISHING. 



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présent, though the raan was not easily satisfied with the reciprocal gift and probably forbade 

 his villagers to sell fish to us. I never heard of another example of fishing parties where 

 success is due to the coopération of so many partners. FlNSCH [1888 — 93, 463] and KUBARV 

 [1888, 135] mention about the Caroline Islands the use of long nets for fencing in shallow 

 places, where fish are killed by spears or poison. The joint fishing of the men with nets 600 

 feet long is related (FlNSCH [1888 — 93, 25]) about Blanche Bay, New Pommera, but without 

 referring to-the number of the partners. The "Riff-Fischerei" of the Marshall Archipelago 

 [1. c. 404] is done by men, women and children, and the course of things is quite différent. 



The organization of the described fishing parties lies probably with the chief of Tobâdi, 

 his boat usually being seen in the middle of the front row. When an important shoal of 

 fish is discovered, every man knows his work and everything is done with admirable swiftness. 

 Of course a sufficient number of well kept boats, hundreds of meters of the standing net, 

 a great many dip nets and spears must always be ready at hand, and this gives an idea of 

 the great, practical importance of this business. The tenacity with which Tobâdi, Ingrâs and 

 Ingrau stand up for their fishing rights on those banks and compel Waba to remain within 

 the limits of the south and south-east basin, where no banks are to be found, may easily be 

 understood. This arrangement, however, is a continuai source of grievance and injury to Waba, 

 which consequently is also excluded from the outer bay and from any coasting trade. 



The large nets, jane, mentioned above, are, according to BlNK [1897, 148], 40 — 50 

 fathoms long; in my opinion, and this may also be judged from fig. 106 of Ingrâs, where such 

 a net has been hung up to be dried, they scarcely measure half that length. A pièce in the 

 collection (N°. 577) is 4 m. 

 broad.Atregular distances 

 floaters are attached (see 

 the séries of floaters be- 

 hind the stern of the 

 boat in front of fig. 

 104), sometimes made 

 of the husk of the Nipa 

 fruit, séruzc'âck, sëruwâ, 

 sometimes of little pièces 

 of a light sort of wood, 

 janigon, with carved or- 

 naments, (N°. 578, PL XX, 

 fig. 9), as also FlNSCH 

 [1888a, pi. IX, fig. 2] 

 illustrâtes of K. W. Land. Along the opposite margin C ar dium shells, tèvanki, dipangi, are 

 fastened, each with a eut aperture, used as sinkers, for which purpose Arc a (FlNSCH [1888 — 93, 

 220]) is used elsewhere; — they are clearly visible by their white colour in fig. 105. Certainly 

 ail thèse nets are not the property of the community, as FlNSCH [1888 — 93, 25] stated about 

 the large nets of New Pommern and as he supposed of those of the Gilbert Group [1. c. 321], 

 at least I often saw them hanging up on racks, before private dwellings, to be dried, 

 as seen in fig. 106. Still I found similar nets in the house of assembly of Tobâdi ; more- 



Fig. 106. Ingrâs; on the right a fishing net is hanging. 



