WHILE FISHING
This is how whale fishing is carried on in Japan:—" When whales appear off the coast large boats containing from 20 to 30 men put off to'attack them, equipped with strong grass-made nets, wbich have meshes about a yard square and are about ten yards long. Eight or ten of these nets are slightly attached'" end to end, and when a wha|e;is reached they are shot in front of and - around him. When he makes a dart. he gets entangled and dashes away, and one of the ten yard.lengths, of net ; breaks off and clings round him. His embarrassment soon brings him again to the surfacemen other nets are thrown, until at last he becomes so hampered with them, nu'd so.harried and frightened^ as to be an easy mark I for spears andbarpoons.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1482, 13 September 1883, Page 2
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135WHILE FISHING Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1482, 13 September 1883, Page 2
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