— The natives of New Guinea employ extraordinary fishing nets of spider's web to capture fish weighing up to lib. They fix bamboos bent in the sh.ape of a landing handle in the jungle glades, and the spiders weave their net all over the frame. The_ method of fishing is to watch for .1 passing fi3h, and then to dip it out and throw it on clrj laud.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13835, 23 February 1907, Page 5
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