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Ch. 11: Ceylon Pearl Fisheries

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The Pearl Fishery of Southern India. 209
to be obtained in Colombo. Several orders were received by the agent from persons who were unable to buy oysters, or who had been unsuccessful in finding Pearls. As these orders could not be executed there, the Pearls were procured from the London market. Some of the wealthy natives, resident in Ceylon, succeeded in collecting a few Pearls of fair size and value, but only a very limited number ; indeed, as a depot for Pearls, Ceylon was as inferior in supply a month after the fishery, as any small provincial town in England could have been. It may be confidently asserted that if the Pearls which had been sent to London had been kept in Ceylon, and sold when the excitement and demand were at their height, far higher prices would have been realized.
The Pearl Fishery of Southern India.
While the waters which wash the island of
Ceylon are studded in certain localities with banks
of Pearl-oyster, as described in the preceding pages,
it is only natural that the opposite coast of Southern
India should in like manner possess its beds of
Pearl-producing molluscs. From times beyond the
reach of our western records, Pearls have been
obtained by the natives of the southern extremity
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