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THE OCKAJI. 



fishes are occasionally taken by two men in tliis 

 manner, in the course of a morning. 



A still more ingenious mode of deception is prac- 

 tised upon these large fishes, by employing a swift 

 double canoe, from the bows of which projects into 

 the air a long curved pole resembling a crane. At 

 some distance from the end this divides into two 





anc.lixo in a double 0Ai<OE. 



branches, which diverge from each other. The foot 

 is secured in a sort of socket between the two canoes, 

 and is so managed that the ends of the pole are 

 capable of being lowered or elevated by a rope which 

 proceeds from the fork. A man sits in the high 

 stern, holding this rope in his hand, and watching 

 the capture of the fishes. From the end of the pro- 



