osspious fishes. 
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the natives fish for this with an implement which they call g ang- 
naed. It is composed of a hempen cord five or six hundred yards in 
length, to which are attached some thirty smaller cords, each furnished 
■with a barbed hook at its extremity. The larger cord is attached to 
floating planks, which act as trimmers, indicating the place of this 
formidable engine of destruction. 
The Greenlanders usually replace the hempen cords by thongs 
of whalebone or narrow bands of sharks’ skiu. At the end of twenty 
Fig. 313. Till.- Halibut (Hlpiioglossus vulgaris). 
hours these lines are drawn home, and it is not at all unusual to find 
five or six large halibut caught on the hooks. Pn. XXVIII. represents 
the native mode of fishing for halibut in the Greenland Seas. 
Another mode of capturing this and other flat-fish is to spear them 
on their sandy beds. “ No rule can be laid down,” says Dr. Bertram, 
“ for this method of fishing. It is carried on successfully by means of 
a common pitchfork, but some gentlemen go the length of fine spears 
made for the purpose, very long, and with very sharp prongs. Others, 
