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Essays and studies presented to William Ridgeway on his sixtieth birthday, 6 August 1913 (1914)

Quiggin, Edmund Crosby, 1875-1920, Ridgeway, William, Sir, 1853-1926 · Cambridge University Press · leaf 652

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much light upon the practice in this region.This model, which was exhibited in the InternationalFisheries Exhibition in London, and was sent by theStraits Settlements Commission, represents a couple ofMalays fishing for gar-fish, Singapore (Fig. i) Eachholds a fishing-rod with line passing through… … 584 H. BALFOUR and is baited with a shrimp, to jerk along over thesurface of the water. The model is carefully made and shows clearly the details.The fact that this methodof fishing with a kite islittle if at all followed inSingapore at the presentday, seems to point eitherto its having been…

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