Essays and studies presented to William Ridgeway on his sixtieth birthday, 6 August, 1913 (1913)
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iders web. Thefisherman seats himself in a small canoe, proceeds to sea, ^ Annual Report on British Ni^iv Guinea, 1897-99, p. 46, pis. 1 and 11. KITE-FISHING 589 and flies his kite, so as to keep the tassel of spiders webbobbing on the water. The fish that catches this en-tangles its teeth in the… … Fie Dobu Island. from a certain kind of spider found at Dobu. Theanimal, or a number of them, is tossed on a long cleftreed or bamboo until a close double tissue of web aboutthree to four inches broad and four to six feet long isobtained. These are laid past to furnish material for thefishing…
