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these pinchers, and catch the fish by the gills. 

 The Iroquois make use of a net forty or fifty 

 fathoms long ; they cast it from their canoe, in an 

 oval form ; their dexterity in this is admirable. 

 They take a great quantity of white fish, and 

 bring them ashore with nets made of nettles; 

 there are two men together ; they take eels in the 

 night, using the bark of a birch tree, with some 

 earth on the end of a stake, after which they 

 light a flambeau, which gives a clear light ; then 

 one or two go into a canoe with a harping iron, 

 placed between two grains of a little fork ; they 

 strike a great number of eels, because the por- 

 poises are pursuing them, but they are stopped by 

 shallow water. Henepin's Travels. 



Fishing on the Coast of Angoza,or Cabenda. 

 This fishery is conducted on a very extensive 

 scale. They use a net, of nearly three or four 

 hundred fathoms, and three or four in depth, 

 made of strong materials. It is floated by buoys 

 of the Lob-lolly tree, a soft spongy wood. A 

 sweep is made, which seldom fails to bring out a 

 large quantity of fish of all descriptions. 



Edinb. Phil. Journal, vol. v. 



Peculiar Method of Fishing at St. Antonio. 

 Captain Foster had no sooner landed than a 

 solitary negro made his appearance; we had in- 

 vaded his solitude ; we soon made him acquainted 



