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R.N., who was at that time Director of the Indian 

 Marine, I was enabled during this recess to engage a 

 native artist to figure all the new species of animals 

 discovered by the Investigator. 



I may here add that, during the season of which 

 this chapter is a partial record, we made thirty-six 

 successful hauls of the trawl in the shallow waters off 

 the Ganjam and Vizagapatam coasts, and came to 

 the conclusion, that although to the zoological 

 collector these coasts, owing to their somewhat 

 greater variety of physical feature, are perhaps more 

 interesting than the Orissa coast, yet, that from the 

 economic point of view, the latter coast, where the 

 prevailing estuarine conditions are peculiarly favour- 

 able to fish life, is much the more promising. 



