Essays and studies presented to William Ridgeway on his sixtieth birthday, 6 August, 1913 (1913)
Cambridge : University press · leaf 674
f baited fishing-lines out to sea with the helpof an off-shore breeze, so that sea-fishing from the shore 6o6 H. BALFOUR became practicable (Fig. 20). Much credit is doubtlessdue to the twentieth-century civilized enthusiast, but ingiving him his due meed of praise, vv^e must not overlooka fact of… … Fig. 20. England. peoples whom we describe as barbaric or savage.Had the Daily Mail angler been aware of this fact hecould hardly have refrained from giving full credit forpriority of invention to these distant peoples, who haveso long employed this ingenious device, and many ofwhom must be…
