. Our troubles in Poona and the Deccan by Arthur Crawford. With numerous illus. by Horace Van Ruith . —this bazaar gup(rumour), and so on as long as the patient chooses. Butwho does not know good Old Tom the Barber! Tom, bythe way, is the very last person to communicate anythingbut stale news of the City, for the best of reasons—henever hears any till tis- stale I THE GABEETS—FISHERMEN—ROODEE-MARS OR DIVERS. These are very numerous in and around Poona by reasonof the two rivers Moota and Moolla, in which there aredeep dows or reaches teeming with fish, large andsmall. Some of them, mostly the
. Our troubles in Poona and the Deccan by Arthur Crawford. With numerous illus. by Horace Van Ruith . —this bazaar gup(rumour), and so on as long as the patient chooses. Butwho does not know good Old Tom the Barber! Tom, bythe way, is the very last person to communicate anythingbut stale news of the City, for the best of reasons—henever hears any till tis- stale I THE GABEETS—FISHERMEN—ROODEE-MARS OR DIVERS. These are very numerous in and around Poona by reasonof the two rivers Moota and Moolla, in which there aredeep dows or reaches teeming with fish, large andsmall. Some of them, mostly the old men and boys, con- CATCHING FISH WHOLESALE. 207 tent themselves with casting, purse, and spoon nets, inwhich they catch the smaller fry at the mouths of brooks,or at any point where the stream narrows or can be con-tracted into a rapid. The able-bodied, fine, well-grownjovial fellows work in large gangs with long deep nets. Their mode of proceeding is as follows: —Selecting asuitable point in a dow, they net it across from bankto bank, and then forming in line at the head of a pool,. each man with a long pole, and with inflated skins underhis arms, they advance shoulder to shoulder towards thenet, treading water and striking their poles down verticallyon the bed of the river. Thus they disturb the large fishat the bottom and drive them forward to the net, whichhas one or more long purses. When close to the net, dis-carding their floats and poles, they dive and kill the fishentangled in the meshes: finally, the whole length of the net. 2o8 OUR TROUBLES IN POONA AND THE DECCAN. which is a cross between the drag net and flue used inEngland, is hauled up on one bank, and the purse emptiedof its finny contents. The fish, most of them of the carp andbarbel species, run to an enormous size and realise goodprices in the City. In much the same way they are employed by the author-ities to recover the bodies of persons drowned—they neverfail to find where the drags have be
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