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Or the fi.'ullptp of seáis & fisli oating birds the people formed 

 \('i-y good bags tbr all kinds of jiurposes, chiéfly ho\\ever for 

 sausnge & oil bags. 



'I'hcy very dexterously poinl thoir arrows with agate Hint. 

 or i;hiss, preferring the latter. 'l'hey (ind the sinewy tail of the 

 (iller yields them a tine siipply of sli-ong thread for binding 

 Ihe [loint securely into the ai'i'ow or spear head. 



The natives before the introduction of iron never attempted 

 lo ciit a tree down witli any stone implement, but resorted to 

 fii-e as the easier way of getting tlie tree down. They would then 

 liuní off such a length as they wished & then would with bone 

 splitters & stones for driving them in would split' the piece in- 

 to such strips as they wished. They have of course special ñames 

 Inr every opera tion & for every kind of tool, and whilst they 

 attempted no ornamentation, yet took great interest in making 

 their several articles as perfcct as possible. 



They used no hooks with llioir tish linos, with which they 

 seldom canglit tish more than 3 Ibs weight, but they used at 

 the end of the line a tough pliant noose, formed of a strip of 

 the tough covering of the lower end of quills. This is wonder- 

 fuUy strong, and with it they formed a perfect noose, in which 

 they secured the bait. They ñshed from the canoe, and used 

 round stones, with a groove cut in them to receive the line as 

 sinks, to carry the line down (|u¡ckly. These sinks the Yaligans 

 cali Shashi. 



The fish having taken the bait the tisli woman hauls the 

 line up, and as soon as the físh is well within reach she 

 deftly seizes it, without attempting to pul! it out of the water, 

 in which case the weight of the fish alone would result in 

 the escape of the fish by disgorging tlie bait. They practised 

 a very effectual way of catching cormorants. Tliey attached 

 4 or 5 short lines to a wooden hoop. At the end of these 

 lines they lied 3 little splits of wood well pointed, in such 

 manner that the points oponed out somewhat. The bait was 

 tied to the outer & bound ends of the splits. When the bait 

 \\-as swallowed from the bound end the points converged «St 

 oíTered no resistance, but when the bird wished to disgorge 

 it could not, because the [loinls now opened being foremost & 

 stuck in the throat. 



In using the nooses before mentioncd it was customary to 

 erei't fences of sticks, leaving here & there spaces for the 

 birds, geese & ducks to pass through. In these gaps were 

 placed nooses well secured. In passing, the geese would be 



