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[162]. Hornell, “Report on the Placuna placenta Pearl Fishery of Lake Tampalakamam,” Colombo, 1906.

[163]. Jardine, “Report Relating to the Mergui Pearl Fisheries,” Rangoon, 1894, p. 6.

[164]. Nisbet, “Burma Under British Rule and Before,” Westminster, 1901, Vol. I, p. 362.

[165]. Nisbet, “Burma Under British Rule and Before,” Vol. I, p. 363.

[166]. See Proverbs xxxi, 1.

[167]. Hesse, “Der Zoologische Garten,” Dec. 1, 1898.

[168]. Wellsted, “Travels in Arabia,” London, 1838, Vol. II, p. 238.

[169]. Ibid., Vol. I, pp. 268, 269.

[170]. “Bolletino della Società d’esplorazione commerciale in Africa,” Milan, June, 1898.