FISHES. 
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perhaps three or four inches in length. Those 
used in taking Sharks are formidable-looking 
weapons ; some are a foot or fifteen inches long, 
exclusive of the curvatures, and not less than an 
inch in diameter. They are such frightful things, 
that no fish, less voracious than a Shark, would 
approach them. In some the marks of the Sharks 
teeth are numerous and deep, and indicate the 
effect with which they have been used.”^ 
POLYNESIAN FISHING-TACKLE. 
The accompanying engraving represents many 
forms of hooks made of all these materials, as 
well as a net, a barbed spear, and a line armed 
with Shark's teeth, all copied from specimens 
- Ellis. 
