Show oysters sold on boughs bousho the traveler in the west indies has bit the opportunity ot of viewing the th noyel algat of gathering oysters arom arm trem tree around the harbors and lagoons the mangrove grow down to the waters edge their branches droop until a part of them la Is submerged oysters will cling to any surface in the water to which they can fasten themselves and BS as there are few shelves or stones stone along the thores shores the bivalves attach themselves to the branches rhex the natives go oyster gathering they lean over the side of the boat find and a branch to which oysters are clinging and cut it off and the bivalves ars are sold on the tree |