[1131] Legge speaks of the Nets being made of very fine bamboo.
[1132] Werner, op. cit., 280 ff.
[1133] Compare another trap which is made by “the people piling up wooden logs in the water. The fish, feeling cold, take shelter under these, and are caught by means of a bamboo screen.” Erh ya, apud Werner, p. 276.
[1134] Yu yang tsa tsu, apud Werner, p. 279. It should really be the ten-thousand, not million, worker.
[1135] Ibid., p. 281.
[1136] Ibid., p. 251.
[1137] Ch ’u hsüeh chi. Ibid., p. 281.
[1138] Op. cit., but in Japan, especially at Gifu, the cormorant is in common use, while D. Ross, The Land of Five Rivers and Sindh (London, 1883), states that on the Indus not only the Cormorant (Graculus carbo), but also the Pelican and the Otter are similarly employed. Early in the seventeenth century an attempt was made to introduce Cormorant fishing into England as a sport, but failed (cf. Wright, op. cit., p. 182). There was at one time a court official, styled The Master of the Herons.
[1139] Blackwood’s Magazine, March, 1917, p. 32.
[1140] Op. cit., V.