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Show FISHING IN POLYNESIA. Natives Catch the I Inny Tribe with Wooden Flshbor.l.. A party of pain iisher. uc ready to set out from the Utile isl.iuJ of Nano-niREa, Nano-niREa, the emalkst. but nun thickly populated c the El lice troup, say Chamber's .K.-.-mU. The n.ght must be windier t;r..l moonless, the latter condition be:r.s xbsfSutv indispensable, indispens-able, aUbo.-eb. curiously enough, th fish will take the hook on an ordinary i starlight i.i.ht. Time alter time havs I tried my. luck with c'.ihrr a growing i o'- a waning -.noon, much ui th,' a-.nuse-: men: of the nances, and never once did 1 ret a pain." ahhon:,h other noc-! noc-! turnal' feed::,;; fish bit freely enough, I notabiv a m-nstrov species ot sM i perch, called S.-.heu. The tackle used i bv the rativs is uu.de cf eoeoanut sennit, tour or rit-ht stranded, or great, i vi :-.k and i.v.i;.Kft of fcoUSns ;i uf ! teen foot flunk, smid wie of these 1 p-owk-rs set;:.- the-b it. The hook ts : made of v ood -in ft. . the same as is ! ,;s.-d for shark thin;. .-.'.x-.m one inch I and a half in .'hum-..-, fottrteen inches ! imihe .hank, with a -...ural -trve. the ! barb, or rather that wh;c'. -1 i the 'puriose of a !..' a. jet . t s..!V'--; : bv a small rce ktsiu d i -''.. ontaliy : acrofAho top of t. e e-ad rd -1, curve. |