Burma . eglect of injuries, such as ^«-cuts, often inflicted in temper. The merit of putting a suffering creature out of pain is not recognised or is denied. The relucttlnce to take life is operative in preventing the people at large from obtaining other animal food than fish. But such is the craving for flesh that the Burmans will consume that of ani-mals dead from natural causes and of many commonly rejected for food. The Burmans do not eat the flesh of the monkey, dog, parrot and crow. The ways of taking fish are legion. Hooks are used with bait and also to mount a fly for dabbing
Burma . eglect of injuries, such as ^«-cuts, often inflicted in temper. The merit of putting a suffering creature out of pain is not recognised or is denied. The relucttlnce to take life is operative in preventing the people at large from obtaining other animal food than fish. But such is the craving for flesh that the Burmans will consume that of ani-mals dead from natural causes and of many commonly rejected for food. The Burmans do not eat the flesh of the monkey, dog, parrot and crow. The ways of taking fish are legion. Hooks are used with bait and also to mount a fly for dabbing [ban laik). A contrivance to be seen along the banks of every river is the hmyon, a cage trap with falling door for large fish. Fish-spearing is practised by day and also by torch-light at night. On the largest scale fish are taken by drawing off the water from the flat lagoons which form in the depiessions of the kwin {in, p. 49). Screens of bamboo or reeds are set in the channels while the floods areN. 194. CAQING FISH SINGLY (SAUNG-TO). 90 BURMA draining off. When the weather is clear enough for the work of curing, theresidue of water is run out and the fish are taken. Where the channels do notdrain the in of its water, the fish are taken by men who advance close abreastup the length of the lagoon with conical cages which they thrust to the bottom
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