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manner. A stout cord held one end fast to a stake on the shore, while 
the owner, by means of several slender poles lashed together, pushed 
the anchor stone on the outer end out to its place, thus setting the net. 
When the floats gave indication that fish had been caught, the net was 
pulled in hand over hand, the fish removed, and the net reset. This 
plan appeared to work very successfully, as evidenced by the large 
number of fish on the drying frames close by. 
On Kotzebue sound, in the month of September, I saw a party of 
Malemut catching whitefish with a seine. The net was fitted with 
wooden floats and stone sinkers in the usual manner, and was about 
G0 feet long, the ends being spread by stout stakes secured by lashings 
of cord. The shore end of the net was held by two men standing at 
the water’s edge; the other end was pushed out from the shore to its 
full extent by the aid of several long poles. A long, rawhide line was 
made fast to the outer end of the net and another to the middle of the 
string of poles, by which it was pulled along. One man carried the inner 
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Fig. 49—Seining on Kotzebue sound. 
end of the pole along the beach between the two rear line men and the 
men holdiag the net. In this way the net was drawn along the beach 
for 100 or 200 yards, and when the fish were running large hauls were 
made. The accompanying figure 49, showing this method, is from a 
sketch made at the time. 
Between Cape Romanzof and the mouth of Kuskokwim river the 
greater part of the fishing is done by means of dip-nets, but great 
quantities of stickleback and other small fish are taken in small nets 
or seines of fine rawhide cord. Large dip-nets for whitetish are made 
of the same material, and among the people south of Cape Vancouver 
this style of net is used more than the gill net. A dip-net obtained by 
Lieutenant Stoney at the head of Kotzebue sound is about three feet 
long, and is made of twisted sinew cord. The upper third of the net has 
meshes about an inch in diameter; this is joined to the finer-mesh 
lower portion by a rawhide cord, which is knotted into the adjoining 
meshes of the two parts. The meshes of the lower portion are less 
than half the size of those of the upper part. On the lower point 
of the net is a rawhide loop, by means of which it can be raised and 
the contents discharged. A small dip-net obtained at Ikogmut is 
