Fishing from the Earliest Times

by William Radcliffe

[1111] J. B. du Halde, Description géographique (etc.) de l’Empire de la Chine (etc.), Paris, 1735.

[1112] Op. cit., vol. II. p. 780, ff.

[1113] J. H. Gray, China (London, 1878), vol. II., 291-301.

[1114] Op. cit., passim.

[1115] These, with fish-maws, and birds’ nests—of the swallow species, Collocalia—are esteemed for their stimulating (or aphrodisiacal) qualities. Williams, op. cit., II. 397.

[1116] Op. cit.

[1117] Pei t’ang shu ch’ao, apud Werner, op. cit., p. 264.

[1118] Op. cit., vol. IV., Pt. I. p. 148.

[1119] Op. cit., vol. IV., Pt. I., 36.

[1120] Ibid., IV. 5, v. “Tapering” according to Prof. Giles should be “very long.” To judge from representations, the rod was about six feet long, although for fresh-water turtles a stouter one of four feet was more usual.