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tained firearms from Europeans, but these were obtained three centuries 
ago, quite long enough for hunting scenes on some of the petroglyphs 
to exhibit the use of a gin instead of a bow. 
This kind of fish hunting by gunshot is one of daily occurrence in the 
region during the proper season. 
Fig. 739.—Shooting fish. Miemac. 
Fig. 740, from the same locality, is more ideographic. The line of 
the gun barrel is exaggerated and prolonged so as nearly to touch the 
fish, and signifies that the shot was a sure hit. The hunters are very 
roughly delineated. Possibly this hunting was at night with fire on 
a brazier and screens, a common practice which seems to be indicated. 
FG. 740.—Shooting fish. Micmac. 
Fig. 741, also from Kejimkoojik, is more ancient, but less distinct. 
The fish is larger, and the weapon may be a lance, not a gun. 
Fic. 741.—Lancing fish. Micmac. 
Fig. 742, copied from a walrus ivory drill-bow, from Cape Darley, 
Alaska (Nat. Mus. No. 44211), illustrates the mode of whale-hunting by 
the Innuit. The crosses over the whale and beneath the harpoon line 
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Fic. 742.—Whale hunting. Innuit. 
represent aquatic birds; the three oval objects attached to the line 
are floaters to support the line and to indicate its course after the 
downward plunge of the harpooned cetacean. 
