A JOURNEY TO THE 
that join two lakes together, they could frequent- 
ly, by tying two, three, or more nets together, 
fpread over the whole breadth of the channel, | 
and intercept every fizable fith that pafled; but — 
inftead of that, they fcatter the nets at a confide- — 
rable diftance from each other, from a fuperftiti- _ 
ous notion, that were they kept clofe together, _ 
one net would be jealous of its neighbour, and by | 
that means not one of them would catch a fingle 
fith. . 
The methods ufed, and ftrictly obferved, when 
angling, are equally abfurd as thofe I have menti- _ 
oned; for when they bait a hook, a compofition 
of four, five, or fix articles, by way of charm, is | 
concealed under the bait, which is always fewed — 
round the hook. - In faét, the only bait ufed by 
thofe people is in their opinion a compofition of 
charms, inclofed within a bit of fifh fkin, fo as in 
fome meafure to refemble a {mall fifh. The | 
things ufed by way of charm, are bits of beavers 
tails and fat, otter’s vents and teeth, mufk-rat’s 
guts and tails, loon’s vents, fquirrel’s tefticles, © 
the crudled milk taken out of the ftomach of | 
fucking fawns and calves, human hair, and num- 
berlefs other articles equally abfurd. | 
Every mafter of a family, and indeed almoft © 
every other perfon, particularly the men, have a — 
fmall bundle of fuch trafh, which they always | 
carry with them, both in Summer and Winter; _ 
and without fome of thofe articles to put under — 
their bait, few of them could be prevailed upon — 
to | 
