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if the strings be dropped from the left hand and pulled to the right; it 
will not be caught if the strings be dropped from the right hand and pulled 
to the left. 
The figure is known as geigi (the kingfish) on Murray Island, and dangal 
(the dugong) on Mabuiag, in Torres Straits (Mrs. Jayne, pp. 39 et seq ., and 
Miss Haddon, pp. 13 and 14). In these places the method of production 
is much simpler 
1. Opening A, taking, as is usual, the left palmar string first. 
2. Release the right index loop, and extend. Hook the left index down 
into its own loop, catching and holding down the palmar string. 
3. Release the three left-hand loops, and extend. Insert the left thumb 
and little finger from below into the left-index loop, and remove the index, 
leaving the string on the left hand in position 1. 
4. Hook the left index from above behind the right palmar string, and, 
catching the string on the inner side of its tip, draw it out, giving the loop 
a twist by turning the index towards you and up to its usual position. 
5. Insert the right index into the right-thumb loop from above, take 
up on its back the far right-thumb string, turn the finger away from you, 
insert it from above into the right-little-finger loop, crook it and take up 
on its inner tip the right near little-finger string, dropping from its back 
the far thumb string previously taken up, and raise the finger to its usual 
position. 
6. Insert the right little finger from below into the right index loop, 
hold in its crook the far thumb string, allowing the right far little-finger 
string to slip off over the back of the little finger. 
7. Bend the left little finger over the left far index string, allowing the 
far little-finger string to slip off over the back of the finger. 
8. Release the loops from the thumbs, and extend the figure between the 
tips of the index and little fingers. 
This figure differs from the foregoing only in being extended between 
the tips of the index and little fingers instead of between the index 
fingers and thumbs. In the former the string also takes an extra 
twist around the left index finger, and the lacing of the diamonds differs 
slightly. The figure itself is exactly the same, and the “ catch ” may 
follow as before ; and the puzzle of catching or not catching may be 
increased by reversing the actions of the hands. This figure is also 
