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New Zealand Tablet, 1 December 1910, Page 1983

A remarkable scheme for trapping eels is practised in India. Barrels loaded with stones and bait are pierced with holes and sunk in the water. Eels, smelling the food, find an entrance through the perforations; they cannot easily get out again, and soon the interior is a wriggling mass of the victims. The fisherman is sure to secure a couple of bushels at every haul. Of all the inhabitants of the ocean few are more destructive than the sea-wolf —a kind of dolphin, which attains when full grown a length of 14ft and a weight of 30001 b. When a mother walrus perceives a sea-wolf, she endeavors to throw her cub on to an iceberg, if one is near. Failing this, she gets it on top of her head, and swims with it above water. But this is vain. Diving far below, the fish of prey comes up with tremendous force, striking the frantic mother a terrific blow, and jolting the cub off her head into the water. Here it falls an easy victim to the assailant, and is soon devoured,