. Wanderings east of Suez in Ceylon, India, China and Japan. .■■/ ■;^ \-. <^-i THE LATK KANA OF DIIOLPUli IN HIS PKAKh KliUALlA This v|™-,!« ^iii-,1;-;^;;—\!r(::^^.;;!^i^^ °^ ■ The Lure of the Pearl Sturdy fellows they are, lithe of limb and broadof chest. Each brings a tangle of pots and kettles,bags and bales, but wears nothing throughout thefishery save a loin-cloth and now and then a tur-ban denoting nationality or caste. There wereforty-five hundred of them in 1905, and thosefrom the Madras Presidency were the backboneof the enterprise. Nearly half the divers wereregistered from

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. Wanderings east of Suez in Ceylon, India, China and Japan. .■■/ ■;^ \-. <^-i THE LATK KANA OF DIIOLPUli IN HIS PKAKh KliUALlA This v|™-,!« ^iii-,1;-;^;;—\!r(::^^.;;!^i^^ °^ ■ The Lure of the Pearl Sturdy fellows they are, lithe of limb and broadof chest. Each brings a tangle of pots and kettles,bags and bales, but wears nothing throughout thefishery save a loin-cloth and now and then a tur-ban denoting nationality or caste. There wereforty-five hundred of them in 1905, and thosefrom the Madras Presidency were the backboneof the enterprise. Nearly half the divers wereregistered from Kilakari, and hundreds came fromthe tip end of India. The men from Tuticorinwere of the Parawa caste, and those hailing fromPaumben were Moormen. The only Ceylon citycontributing divers was Jaffna, whose men wereof the fisher caste, said to be descendants of Arabswho settled sixty years ago at Jaffna. The diverscoming the greatest distance were the negroes andArabs from Aden and the Persian Gulf, most ofwhom landed at Colombo from trading steamers,and made the

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