Identifier: fromeveryl00grosscenesrich (find matches)
Title: Scenes from every land, second series; a collection of 250 illustracions picturing the people, natural phenomena, and animal life in all parts of the world. With one map and a bibliography of gazetteers, atlases, and books descriptive of foreign countries and natural history
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Grosvenor, Gilbert Hovey, 1875-1966 National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Subjects: Views Physical anthropology
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National geographic society
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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UA\\.\ii.\:. :.i:.Ai: fisherman The Hawaiians are the most expert swimmers in the world, and are nearly as much athome in the water as on land. This special adaptation for water life serves a most usefulpurpose when employed in connection with fishing, and has resulted in the development ofa number of methods not to be seen elsewhere. These spirited photographs illustrate a uniqueway of speur fishing. On a rugged shore, where the waves are churned into foam, the hardy,skillful fisherman makes a prodigious plunge head foremost into the surf while holding fast tothe long spear. Free-swimming fishes are thus captured, and the wily octopus and retiringspiny lobster hiding in the crevices of the rock are impaled.— Photo from C. G. Crane. (10) SCENES FROM EVERY I^ANDf
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