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FIG. 363. Methods of fishing practised by the Virginia Indians. 

 After De Bry.* 



[XIV. Wooden hurdle on which they roast fishes]. "After a capture of 

 plenty of fish, they proceed to the chosen place suitable for the preparation of 

 victuals : having here fixed in the ground four forks marking a quadrangular 

 space, they put on them four sticks, and across these others, thus forming a 

 hurdle of sufficient height. When the fish have been placed upon the hurdle, 

 they build a fire underneath it, in order to roast them ; yet not according to the 

 manner of the inhabitants of the Province of Florida, who only parch and harden 

 them in the smoke that they may be kept during the whole winter ; while these, 

 laying by no store, roast and consume the whole ; afterward, when needed, they 

 roast or seethe fresh ones, as we shall see hereafter. In the meantime, when the 

 hurdle cannot hold all the fishes, they suspend the remaining ones by the gills 

 on little rods which they have stuck in the ground near the fire, and thus cook 

 them : they also pay close attention that they are not burned. When the first 



concauam pro cuspido imponunt, quibus noctu vcl interdiu pisces figunt, & in suas eymbas congerunt : sed aliorum 

 piscium gpinis & spiculis vti norimt. Baculis etiam seu virgultis (sic) in aquam defixis tegetes conficiunt, quits 

 intertexentes in angustum semper contrahunt, vt ex figura apparet. nunquam apud nos conspecta est tarn subtilis 

 pisces capiendi ratio, quorum varia genera istic in fluminibus reperiuntur, nostris dissimilia, & boni admodum 

 succi." 



* This design and the two following next are not taken directly from De Bry's volume, but from Beverly's 

 " History of Virginia," which is illustrated with inverted, reduced, and here and there modified copies of De Bry'8 

 plates. I had some of Beverly's deviations corrected in accordance with the original engravings. 



