Williams, J. H.

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Williams, J. H. (detail)
1960In quest of a mermaid.
London, Rupert Hart-Davis: 1-199. Illus.
—Recalls meeting, in 1916, a policeman who was detailed to prevent Arab fishermen in the Persian Gulf from taking dugongs to sea for use as indicators of approaching storms (their method is not explained). Also recounts a dugong sighting in the North Andaman Islands in 1929 (9-12).