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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 657

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piders web. Thefisherman seats himself in a small canoe, proceeds to sea, ^ Annual Report on British Nenv Guinea, 1897-99, p. 46, pis. i 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… … Fig. 7. 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…

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