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The sucker-fisli is so well known to the natives as to 

 give rise to a decorative motive in their decorative art. 

 Haddon gives numerous figures of tliis. It is also a sub- 

 sidiary totem of one of the clans in the western islands 

 and Haddon thinks may once have heen a chief totem of a 



larger but now extinct clan. The natives moreover ascribe 

 to it considerable intelligence. TIaddon thus concludes 

 his interesting account: 



The nalives hnve aTcnt rosi)eet for tlie sucker-fish and firmly believe 

 it to possess oininons i)owors. For cxainplo : when (lie fish does not 

 take a good hold on the liirlle and then swims off it indicates that some 

 ].art of the canoe is not s<>cnro; wlieii tliere is somethin- the matter 

 with the bow of the canoe, the fish is said to attach itself to the uock of 

 tlie tnrtle, but should the stem of the canoe l)e weak, the tisli adiioros to 



the front part of the carapace, the caiuu- i> >!ro,m-: when it -oos to^one 

 side of the carapace or keeps nuniii- mIm),,!. ii >lio\v^ iliat tlie leashings 

 of the float to the onlri-irer on that i.arth-nhir si.le are insecure. More 

 than once T was told. Gapn savey all same man. 1 think him half devil 

 a. c, spirit).- 



One other account is now to follow and all the known 

 data will have been fully presented to the reader. E. J. 

 f'>anfiel(l. tlio well-known Anstraliaii, lived I'oi- a nnniber 

 of year- on Dunk M;ni<l. off tlu' of ti-(.]H<-;il (,)ueens- 



