[204] Conch. Syst. ii. p. 262 n.
[205] P. L. Simmonds, Commercial Products of the Sea, p. 278.
[206] Benderloch, p. 118.
[207] C. Hedley in J. P. Thomson, Brit. New Guinea, p. 283.
[208] Most of the above facts are derived from a study of a collection of native implements, weapons, ornaments, etc., in the Antiquarian Museum at Cambridge.
[209] Thurston, Notes on the Pearl and Chank Fisheries, Madras, 1890.
[210] See in particular, P. L. Simmonds, The Commercial Products of the Sea.
[211] H. Friend, Field Club, iv. 1893, p. 100.
[212] Nature, xxxi. 1885, p. 492.
[213] W. Anderson Smith, Benderloch, p. 173.