The Middle Kingdom : a survey of the geography, government, literature, social life, arts, and history of the Chinese empire and its inhabitants (1907)
Williams, S. Wells (Samuel Wells), 1812-1884 · New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 33
till considered land- worthy, and are transformed into houses by setting them bodily upon a stone foundation above the reach of the tide, or break- ing them up to construct rude huts. . Cormorants are trained in great numbers to capture fish in the rivers and lakes; they will disperse at a given… … water each one knows its own master. If one seize a fish too heavy for him alone, another comes to his assistance, and the two carry it aboard ; but such cases are very rare compared with others where the weak or young bird is unceremoniously robbed of its capture. When several hundreds of them…
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