G4 THE HIVE OF THE BEE-HUNTER. 



The implements of the arrow-fisherman are a strong 

 bow, five or six feet long, made of black locust or of 

 cedar (the latter being preferred), and an arrow of ash, 

 three feet long, pointed with an iron spear of peculiar 

 construction. The spear is eight inches long, one end 

 has a socket, in which is fitted loosely the wooden shaft ; 

 the other end is a flattened point ; back of this point 

 there is inserted the barb, which shuts into the iron as 

 it enters an object, but will open if attempted to be 

 drawn out. The whole of this iron-work weighs three 

 ounces. A cord, about the size of a crow-quill, fifteen 

 or twenty feet long, is attached to the spear, by which 

 is held the fish when struck. 



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Of the water-craft used in arrow-fishing, much might 

 be said, as it introduces the common Indian canoe, or as 

 it is familiarly termed, the " dug out," which is nothing 

 more than a trunk of a tree, shaped according to the hu- 

 mor or taste of its artificer, and hollowed out. 



We have seen some of these rude barks that claimed 

 but one degree of beauty or utility beyond the common 

 log, and we have seen others as gracefully turned as was 

 ever the bosom of the loving swan, and that would, as 

 gracefully as Leda's bird, spring through the rippling 

 waves. 



