Note 74 — PART I
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There is no hook; only a piece of whalebone or a stem of seaweed, with a feather stuck at the end, attached to which is a running knot, which holds the bait. As soon as the fish has swallowed feather and bait, the women, for the men disdain fishing, draw it to the surface and quickly seize it. Cf. Darwin, Jour. of Researches, etc., during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle (London, 1860), ch. x, p. 213.