Show natives W E for sponges in some bome parts of the world sponges are obtained in a way that was known to he phoenician phoenicians hold mg a heavy stone tied to a rope natives dive to the sea bed where they gather into a bag as many sponges as they can before beleas mg ing their ballast and letting themselves then the selves rise to the surface some experts have been known to stay under for four A freshly gathered sponge resembles nothing so much as a piece of raw meat some days after collection the flesh decays and after washing the sponge 41 is s ready for market |