RoTH] ANIMAL FOOD 191 
various kinds having been previously cast into the water to entice 
them to the surface (BE, 39). Spiders are used for the purpose by 
Arawak and Akawai on the upper Demerara. Any spiders will do, 
so it is said. They are caught by flicking them with a small plait- 
work bat, somewhat after the style of a flycatcher, into the interstices 
of which they stick, and are kept in a little plaited basket specially 
made for the purpose. Five or six spiders, ordinarily the day after 
they are killed, are put into this basket, which, tied to a string, is 
slung over a forked branch onto the surface of the water. By holding 
the free end of the string, the fisherman bobs this a few inches up 
and down into the water, when the fish are attracted from all direc- 
tions, and he can now use his bow and arrows. Among many such 
fish that are attracted by this spider bait are the tibikuri, cartabak, 
pirai, etc., but with the last mentioned care must be taken that the 
creature does not spring out of the water and snap half the basket 
away. Spiders can likewise be baited on a hook. Crab nuts, cara- 
camata seeds, moku-moku, genipa fruit, and, according to one ob- 
server (IT, 238), that of the hevea and smilax can thus be utilized. 
A number of the seeds of the carapa or crab nut are pounded, and 
having been inclosed in a netting of withes, they are put in the water 
and soon attract the greedy morocot. An Indian stands ready with 
a light spear, which he lances into them (ScB, 183). This same 
ground bait is used for cartabak [?Zetragonopterus] on the Canje 
Creek (DF, 54). At the mouth of the Barima caracamata seeds are 
thus employed for morocot or osibu (SR, 1, 138). The Indian, after 
having provided himself with a number of these caracamata seeds 
(aramatta of the Creoles, haiariballi of the Arawak, ?Diplotropis 
sp-), selects a spot where no trees of this description are growing 
along the banks, and having everything ready throws a few of the 
fruits as an allurement on the water where there is little or no current, 
and while the morocoto rises to seize them, spears it (ScK, 239-240). 
At the falls on the Essequibo, ete., the fruit of the moku-moku is 
used as a ground bait for the Wyletes pacu Jard. (SR, 1, 300). When 
the river is high and heavy rain still frequently falls and dulls the 
color of the water so that even the Indian can hardly see the fish 
under the surface, . . . a basket of open wickerwork filled with the 
green apple-like fruit of the lana, Genipa americana, is thrown into 
the river and allowed to float with the stream. Standing in the bow 
of his canoe or woodskin . . . the Indian follows the floating basket. 
The lana seems to be a very attractive bait to fish, for they rarely 
fail to rise to it. As soon as this happens, a rush through the water 
indicating where the fish is, the arrow flies and the fish is almost in- 
variably transfixed (IT, 287). Cartabak seem to be very fond of 
calabash pap, which is offered them wrapped up in pawpaw leaves. 
