Parakites : a treatise on the making and flying of tailless kites for scientific purposes and for recreation (1896)
Woglom, Gilbert Totten · New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 36
an occasional display of nine or ten of these scion-like fish- kites swaying about in the wind, all well supported by the parent bamboo stem. (In the Japanese literary vernacular, " conserved " and " parent" are the "pivotal" words in the preceding sentence ; no other diagram accompanies it.) The… … exceedingly strong fiber ; the name is diagram h. Malayan. The pineapple cord is more expensive ; the fiber is shorter, but it is between the other two in strength. Pineapple cord is used mostly in southern China. Throughout Siam the .system and customs as to kite-flying are similar to those in…
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