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THE AMERICAN NATURALIST 



[Vol. LIII 



this paper in a photographic reproduction of Holder's 

 illustration and being a very spirited one is of interest 

 , and value. It is of course not a picture of an actual oc- 

 currence.^^ 



In the paper previously referred to (1905) Holder tells 

 of trying to catch turtles and sharks by means of a living 

 fish-hook, in which effort, however, he was unsuc<5essful. 

 He says: 



I experimented with the Remora but the fish invariably refused to 

 dart after the turtle, preferring to find shelter under the boat. One 

 tossed to a shark was seized by the latter, that doubtless thought it a 



been stale : they surely were not ship or turtle slayers. 



In this connection the only other modern figures of 

 fishing with the living fish-hook may be given. Fig. 9, 

 Plate III, is a reproduction 'of one of tlie illustrations 

 from Hudson's ''Curious Bread Winners of the Deep" 

 (1893). It was made to illustrate the story copied from 

 Ogilby's ''America," and is reproduced here for the sake 

 of completeness. The other figure number 10, Plate III, 

 is from Frederic Ober's "Crusoe's Island" (1901). He 

 gives the Columbus story and has had this figure drawn to 

 illustrate it. The same data without the figure is found in 

 an earlier book by Ober— "Travel Tales of the West 



The Living Fish-Hook in Chinese Waters 

 From the Caribbean we will go half way round the 

 world to find the same story in all its essentials told of the 

 fishermen along the southern coast of the Celestial Em- 

 pire. Our reference here is to Frank T. Bullen, who in 

 his delightful book "Denizens of the Deep" (1904) gives 

 the following interesting account : 



Turtles are many on the Chinese Coast, and tlie guileful Chinese 



Holder's " Half flours with liMi... l;,[,ti!,... ,V li^r' n' ' ' ' x/w" York, 

 190C, page 80 and figure 4".). 



