172 ‘NOTES TAKEN. 
Here for the first time I saw fish shot from horseback. 
Whilst the Major’s horse was drinking an enormous cat- 
fish made his appearance, and lay still long enough to 
receive a bullet from his famous revolver, which had done 
such good service in ridding us of rattlesnakes during our 
trip. Conner told me he had frequently seen the Witchitas, 
and other Indians, spear fish on horseback. Their plan was 
for two or three to ride into the stream, armed with their 
spears, and as one became tired another took his place, until 
after chasing the fish from hole to hole, they worried them 
down and speared them with ease. Farther south, the 
Indians take large quantities of the electric eel, in the 
following way: 
The eel abounds in pools. A band of Indians, will drive 
their whole herd of horses and mules into a pool and keep 
them moving, the eels constantly striking their legs, until the 
supply of electricity is exhausted, when the fish becomes 
torpid and is easily taken. The philosophy of this is, that 
after a discharge of electricity from the fish, it requires some 
time for the electric function to restore itself to sufficient 
vigor to act with effect. 
The crossing, at this creek, being composed of one solid slab 
of limestone, smooth and level, the Captain called it Flat 
Rock Creek. 
We continued our course, very anxious to get to camp, as 
the sun was so intensely hot; thermometer one hundred and 
four degrees in the shade. 
