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Singapore makes it a port of call; it is besides of 
some importance as a station for the numerous small 
vessels engaged in the productive and increasing 
pearl fishery, which is carried on in the shallow 
waters of Torres Straits, and gives employment to a 
2;reat number of South Sea Islanders as divers and 
boatmen. 
