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  RVEY OF THE INTEI?ROPICAL into &socket, at the end of a staffof light wood, abokas thick as &, man's wrist, and about seven or eight feet long: to the staff is tied one end ofa ]ooee llne about three or four fatholn8 long, the other end of which i8 fastened to the peg... To strike the turtle, the peg is xed into the socket, and when it has entered !. body, and is re- rained there by the barb, the staff flies off' and serves for a float to trace their victim in the water; it assists also to tire }Im;  they can overtake him with their canoes and haul Mm on shore. One of these Pos, as I have mentioned already, w e found in the body turtle, which had healed up over it. Their lines are from the dLk- heSS of a half-inch rope to the fineness of a heir, and m'e made of some vegetable substance, but what in particular we had no oppor- touity to learn." HAWwRSWOitTH'S (e, VOl. ill, The above method differs only from that used by the natives of Rockinghem Bay and Cape Flirttiers; in that the float is another piece of light buoyant wood--the staff' being retained in hh hand when the turtle is struck. The re4tder will hem recognize, in this instrument, s striking resemblance to the  and Asffee, tho weapons which Captain Parry describes the Emt, fi,,uux to use in spearing the seal and whale. (PABJtY's qecsd ey, pp. 507 and o,g,t,zeo by Goog[�

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