64 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 /oosely 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. 





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. 
