Transactions - American Fisheries Society . ^t^^SS^ ^^v •-. ?,. Shipping guano from Ballestas—height 200-300 feet. (Middle island). May, 1^07 at present on a most unsatisfactory basis and of an importancefar below its possibility. Some of the methods in use are of interest. The cavallitos orpony boats are perhaps well known—a small and gracefulboat of reeds on which the Indian fisherinan rides astride, as ona hobby-horse, using his hook and lines or working his end of theseine—in most picturesque fashion. The balsas or rafts (largeand small) of l)alsa wood are very service<ible and exclusiv
Transactions - American Fisheries Society . ^t^^SS^ ^^v •-. ?,. Shipping guano from Ballestas—height 200-300 feet. (Middle island). May, 1^07 at present on a most unsatisfactory basis and of an importancefar below its possibility. Some of the methods in use are of interest. The cavallitos orpony boats are perhaps well known—a small and gracefulboat of reeds on which the Indian fisherinan rides astride, as ona hobby-horse, using his hook and lines or working his end of theseine—in most picturesque fashion. The balsas or rafts (largeand small) of l)alsa wood are very service<ible and exclusivelyused in some regions. On the larger ones, with l^ig sails spread,the fishermen take their families with them to remain out fish-ing and salting their catch for periods of a number of primitive but useful types of l)oat are to a great extentdisplaced now by more modern fishing boats, especially Mediter-ranean types introduced by Italian and Greek fishermen. American FLsJurirs Socicfi/ 251 It ipi interesting to find the selaehians valued as
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