Volume 2

The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl.

Date:
[1821-1827?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    women. Being each provided with a basket, they go to the edge of the rocks which project into the sea and plunge into the water, at the bottom of which they will remain twice as long as our ablest divers. An instant is suflicient for them to take breath ; they then dive again, and thus proceed till they have nearly filled their baskets. In general they employ a small piece of wood cut into the shape ofa spatula to separate such shell-fish as adhere to the rocks. They bring up also. large . lobsters, which they take the precaution to kill as soon as they have caught them. These fish they cook by roasting in the shells on the fire- While the women are engaged in VOU. il. 28