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Ch. 11: Ceylon Pearl Fisheries

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frequent surveys, and at proper periods he employed for temporary purposes certain divers, who brought up samples of the oysters. These oysters were carefully washed, and the Pearls found were cata­logued, so as to arrive at an average result in preparing for a more extensive fishery. In the year 1879, such a preliminary fishery had been attempted, and in consequence of the general good average of the yield of Pearls, the Ceylon Government decided to organize the following year a much more extensive fishery, so as to embrace a large number of of previously explored banks, which had been reported as having yielded a high per-centage of fine Pearls.
The usual notices were circulated throughout Ceylon and India, and created considerable excite­ment amongst the natives, as for many years the fisheries had yielded such poor results that Pearls were becoming exceedingly scarce, as indeed they still are.
Previously to this fishery, no European had ever ventured upon the speculation of buying oysters on a large scale ; although for many years, as each successive fishery had been conducted by the govern­ment, a few Europeans, such as the military officers and merchants of Ceylon, had speculated in a small number of oysters, to the extent of £2 or £$, just
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