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Title: The shell book
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Rogers, Julia Ellen
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Publisher: Garden City, N. Y. : Doubleday, Page, and Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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thousandsof persons. The divers bring their families, and build huts ofpalm and bamboo. Boats carrying fifteen to twenty men go dailyto the banks which lie under ten to twelve fathoms of water. The diver is naked, his body rubbed with oil. He stuffs hisnose and ears with cotton. A clamp is often worn on the nose.He carries a knife to fight off sharks, and to loosen the oysters.A basket hangs on his neck. He has a bar with a large shot ateach end under his feet. He is framed by three wooden piecesattached to the loaded bar. A rope lets this frame down andhauls it up in two minutes or less time. The diver has aboutseventy-five oysters. Fifty times a day he will take the trip. The two great afflictions of divers are rheumatism and ulcers.The reward of this exhausting form of labour is a fluctuating,elusive thing. The uncertainty of it does not lessen its hold onthe people who take it as a matter of course. The Ceylon fish-eries give the diver one-fourth of his shells, divided when he 396
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Great-winged Avicula, Aincvla macroptera.Atlantic Wing Shell, Avicula Atlantioi. WIXG SHELLS, ROCK-D\VELLERS ANT) A MUSSEL 4 Rock-eater, Lithodomus lilhophagus, in its burrow. 3 Peruvian Wing Shell, Avicula Peruvuna with byssus. 5 Rough Rock-dweller, Vulsella rugosa^ embedded in porous rock. 6 Tulip Horse Mussel, Modiola tulipa.

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