!/8 occnPATTONS of the nattves. — Fishing — Harpooning. 



one for the men. A mnit can hardly catch more than 

 four or five dents 1 ttorth tf && in a day, when suc- 

 cessful. The lish sells for about 2 cents per pound. 



The Malaya strike the porpoise or Iowa, and the 

 parec, ray or skate, with an iron harpoon to which 

 a long coil of rope m attached. The porpoise is 

 chased during- the day ; but the skate is harpoom-d 

 at night, being- atlraeted to the boats by the light of 

 torches. The skate here sometimes attains to the 

 size of six feet in diameter. Those of three or four 

 feet in diameter are common. As they come close 

 np to the surface, they are easily struck. When I he 

 liarb lias been driven into the fish, and the shaft has 

 separated from it, the skate dives with considerable 

 velocity ; and if tefge, it may be secured after about 

 an hour's labour. There is a small species of whale 

 uli.Hi frequents lite harbour at intervals. The Ma- 

 lays call it ikan powh. Large quantities of smaller 

 fish are caught in the river* by plariu» torches near 

 the w ater. Tlfc bout has a netting 1 on one side. 



Jt is perhaps to the use, us food, of the shark, the 

 large skate, and other coarse sorts of fish, that we 

 maj attribute the modified leuee, and other cutane- 

 ous diseases, with which the lower orders of the jkfc 

 palatum arc lamentably arliieted. The first-mention- 

 ed di.^n<hr seems to become hereditary. Tor the 

 gratiftctttkttl of iehih\ ovists, I will enumerate the 

 kinds of fish which are here sold in Ihe l>azars, or 

 ('.inn! in ihe Malayan weirs, or the larye dragnets 

 of the CUineae, 



poisonous rising. 



1. Purer hitbbati — electrical skate. 



2. Parqe kalaimr — fuse tat ed ray. 



3. Puree huUbus linphin — torpedo ray. 



4. Yon taftatf — Zebra shark. 



5. Ikan koqehiurt—n fish wbicji seems to possess 

 the characteristics of "the "European angler.** 



