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AWAITING THE APPROACH OF PISCATORIAL PREY
| Much skill is shown by most South Sea Islanders in the art of spearing fish; a quick eye and a quicker hand being the two great essentials. Off the islands of San Cristoval, where fishing scaffolds are erected along the reefs, a goodly collection invariably falls prey to the deadly four-pronged native spear, for mullet, bream, codfish, rays, and even small sharks can be "forked" by an expert |
CONICAL CAGES FOR UNSUSPECTING FISH
| The various ingenious methods of catching and ensnaring fish employed by the natives of the Solomon Islands would furnish material for a volume. Nets of all descriptions and wicker contrivances, as seen above, are in common use. The fishers know exactly when the desired prey will come swimming to their doom — and a dextrous bite at the back of the head makes an end of them |