Madras Fisheries Department Notes on the Fauna and Fishing Industries of the Laccadive Islands Report no 2 of 1922 Madras Fisheries Bulletin

The collection illustrates the uniformity and borrowed character of the earthworm fauna of these and other similar islands." On the 22nd the counting of the people of the island took place and so no fishing boats went out. [...] Immediately on locating the animal the sharp point of one of the sticks is thrust into the animal and with the help of the other the victim is brought out of its retreat. [...] The islanders are poor when compared with the people of the other islands and the men and women are on short commons at times owing to the irregular supply of rice from the mainland and partly to the difficulty of finding profitable outlet for their produce. [...] Till then the northern half of the island and the lagoon and the small islets towards the south and north should prove admirable collecting ground for zoological specimens and also a very suitable place for studying the general phenomena of the growth and formation of coral islands. [...] The white sand of the bottom suits the natural colour of the cotton nets so well that the men state that barking and the consequent colouring of these frighten and disperse the fish.