62 FISH HARVESTING. 
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FISH HARVESTING. 
Tux systems adopted by the Indians for captur- 
ing salmon vary in accordance with the localities 
chosen for fishing. Besides the stages or baskets 
in use on the Columbia river, they construct weirs 
reaching from one side of a stream to the other, 
with skilfully-contrived openings, allowing fish 
to pass easily through them into large lateral 
stores made of closely-woven wicker, where they 
are kept prisoners until required. 
They have rather a clever contrivance for 
catching salmon in the bays and_ harbours, 
using a sort of gill-net (a net about forty feet 
long and eight feet wide), with large meshes ; 
the upper edge is buoyed by bits of dry cedar- 
wood, that act as floats, and the net kept tight 
by small pebbles slung at four-foot distances 
along the lower margin. This kind of net the 
Indians stretch across the mouth of a small bay 
or inlet, and sit in their canoes a short distance 
