 | 1857 - 602 pages
...to the smallest handfilet in the care of a child. Fishing by night and fishing by day — fishing by moonlight, by torchlight, and in utter darkness —...seas — fishing by cormorants — fishing by divers, fishmg with lines, with baskets — by every imaginable decoy and device. There is no river which is... | |
 | 1858 - 788 pages
...success in China — every variety of net, from vast seines embracing miles, to the smallest hand-fillet in the care of a child. Fishing by night, and fishing...cormorants — fishing by divers — fishing with lines, witli baskets — by every imaginable decoy and device. There is no river which is not staked to assist... | |
 | China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society - 1855 - 512 pages
...communities, sometimes independent and isolated. There is no species of craft by which a fish can to inveigled which is not practised with success in China...river which is not staked to assist the fisherman in h craft. There is no lake, no pond, which is not crowded with fish. A piece of water is nearly as valuable... | |
 | 1857 - 794 pages
...success in China; every variety of net, from vast seines, embracing miles, to the smallest handlallet in the care of a child. Fishing by night and fishing...fisherman in his craft. There is no lake, no pond, which ¡3 not crowded with fish. A piece of water is nearly as valuable as a field of fertile land. At daybreak,... | |
 | Scenes - 1860 - 202 pages
...success in China; — every variety of net, from vast seines, embracing miles, to the smallest handfillet in the care of a child. Fishing by night, and fishing...fishing by cormorants, fishing by divers ; fishing by lines, with baskets, by every imaginable decoy and device. There is no river which is not staked... | |
 | Wesleyan Methodist missionary society - 1865 - 210 pages
...who are stationary on the rock by the sea-side, and by those 76 •' HASTEN WITH THE BREAD OF LIFE." who are absent for weeks on the wildest of seas; —...fishing by cormorants, fishing by divers ; — fishing by lines, with baskets, by every imaginable decoy and device. There is no river which is not staked... | |
 | Marguerite Tollemache - 1870
...success in China; — every variety of net, from vast seines, embracing miles, to the smallest handfillet in the care of a child. Fishing by night, and fishing...fishing by cormorants, fishing by divers ; fishing by lines, with baskets, by every imaginable decoy and device. There is no river which is not staked... | |
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China; every variety of net, from vast seines, embracing miles, to the smallest handlallet in the care of a child. Fishing by night and fishing by day; fishing in moonlight, by torchlight, and in utter darkness ; fishing in boats of all sizes ; fishing... 