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liis second expedition is to be found in his "Head Hunters : 

 Black, White and Brown" (1901). This gives essentially 

 the same data as that contained in the short article in 

 Folklore, 1890, but for fuller accounts we must turn to the 

 various reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expe- 

 dition to Torres Straits. 



Taking up these reports chronologically fits in well with 

 the scheme of this paper, as will be seen presently. 

 Volume V (1904) deals with the "Sociology, Magic and 

 Religion of the Western Islanders." Here Haddon gives 

 three folk tales, one of which has to do with the origin of 

 the use of the Gapu (the native name of the sucking-tish), 

 and two with its use. Later in the same volume Dr. Elvers 

 gives a very detailed account of the method of procedure 

 in fishing with the Gapu. This data will be found later in 

 Haddon 's final account of the use of this fish. Further 

 along in Volume V Haddon and Rivers give accounts of 

 the Gapn as a totem. 



Volume VI of the Reports bearing date 1908 has for its 

 title the "Sociology, Magic and Relation of the Eastern 

 Islanders." These peoples do not ^ocm to liavo so many 

 tales of the Gapu as their western luctlircti -iiicc Haddon 

 records but two. It seems apart fVom the ]airii()-(^ of this 

 paper to insert any of these folk talo 1i('r<". Imt it is my 

 purpose later with Professor Ifaddon's kind pcnnission 

 to collect them and publish them in a slun t at ticlc 



We now come to the latest, most di'tailed, and most valu- 

 able of all the accounts of the use of the living fish hook in 

 Torres Straits. In Volume IV of the Reports issued in 

 1912, Professor Haddon gives a very circumstantial ac- 

 count and this will be quoted in full. In this volume, 

 dealing with arts nnd crafts, fi-hiiig witli the sucking-fish 

 is freqiK'iitly ivfcnvd to. Thv fi>li i^ well known to the 

 natives as their itiytlis and U-yomU >ho\x and it is a com- 

 mon motif in their ornanu'nt> and (^rnanuMitat ion. Had- 

 don 's account of its use now follows : 



The mo.st inten-stin- me\hod <>f .•Mh lnn.;- lu.il.. is that in whidi the 

 su.-kino. fisl, (ralliHl napx m \he wo.ten, i>ai1 of thv stniils. and gep in 



