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SQUID VILLAGE. 
for the market, where they are sold in vast 
quantities. They are also extensively used as 
bait in fishing for bonito and other large fish of 
tlie mackerel tribe, which abound ^long the coasts. 
Tlie squid is strung through its entire length, the 
club of one of the long tentacular arms artfully 
covering and concealing the hook. 
Near Hakodadi there is a small fishing village 
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exclusively devoted to the capture and curing of 
these nutritious Cephalopods. Many hundreds of 
thousands may here be daily seen diying in the 
open air, suspended in regular rows on lines, which 
are raised on poles about six feet from the ground, 
all very nicely cleaned and kept flat by means of 
bamboo stretchers. The open spaces are filled with 
these squid-laden lines, and before all the houses 
in the village squids everywhere form a novel 
kind of screen. The Japanese name of the 2 >lace is 
Shai-Sawabi, but by us it Avas always called “ Squid 
AMlage.” 
On the 20th, I landed with the captain at the 
village of Nisi-Bama. The A^alleys between the 
