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one single day. Less than a week thereafter, not a fish will be 

 seen of the myriads that were basking in the sun. Of course, the meshes 



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of the dip-net resorted to as a means of securing them are proportionally 

 small. They are scarcely a quarter of an inch square. 



The nets of our aborigines were originally of the fibre ot either the 

 nettle {Urtica Lyallit), the willow {Salix longifolia) bark, or a species of 



