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amounted to ninety-two pounds and was made up 

 of forty-four fish, of which three were over ten 

 pounds each, the bulk being under half a pound. 

 The take of large fish over a span long was nearly 

 one thousand five hundred pounds, and perhaps the 

 fifteen baskets of small fish would weigh about 

 five hundred pounds, so that the entire take was 

 two thousand pounds of fish not a bad day's work 

 for four hundred people. 



A brief description of one or two of the more 

 numerous varieties of fish thus caught may not 

 be uninteresting. A large scaleless kind is very 

 like the becktie (pike), and at this season of the 

 year was large with roe ; some of these were quite 

 three and a half feet long and over ten pounds 

 in weight. The rowee, a scaly fish, is very like 

 the mahseer in appearance and is very delicate eat- 

 ing. The river herring is about double the 

 size of our Yarmouth favourite, but, unlike that 

 dainty, is only edible around the stomach, though 

 from here a pound of the most delicious eat- 

 ing can be cut. An ugly monster is the kana, 

 which looks for all the world like a ground 

 shark in miniature. A spotted hide, tiny eyes, 

 numerous feelers, an enormous head and jaws 

 and powerful tail make the resemblance very 

 close. It lurks among the rocks and seizes any 

 fish that may approach. Its flesh is pink, very 

 like that of salmon. 



With the division of spoil the day's labour 

 did not end. A bright moon at night lighted 

 up the scene and showed the sand-bars where 



