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part in this pursuit : very few fish are caught by 

 the fly, excepting the black bass occasionally. 

 Martin's British Colonies, vol. iii. 



Method of catching Cay men. The Indian 

 instrument to take the Cayman was very simple : 

 it consisted of four pieces of tough wood, one foot 

 long, and about the thickness of a finger, barbed 

 at both ends. These pieces were tied round the 

 end of the rope in such a manner, that if you 

 conceive the rope would be an arrow, it would 

 form the arrow's head, which was well baited with 

 the flesh of the acouri, and its entrail twisted 

 round the rope a foot above it. A print of this 

 is to be seen in Mr. Wattertons Wanderings. 

 He caught a cayman with this instrument, ten 

 feet long, and rode upon its back forty yards, 

 when they dragged it out of the water. 



New Mode of Fishing in China. Among the 

 many amusing scenes which strike the eye of a 

 European, on his first visit to China, is the in- 

 genious mode of fishing practised near Canton. 



At the stern of their punt-like boats, a small 

 mast, like a flagstaff, about eight feet high, is 

 fixed. To the top of this a block is made fast, 

 having a sheaver to carry a H inch rope. One 

 end of this rope is fixed to a bamboo pole twelve 

 or fifteen feet in length ; it is hoisted higher 



