=o 
Manatus Senegalensis, found in the West African rivers, 
ranging up to a length of 15 feet—Vogel’s “Ajuh” from 
the Benueh (branch of Niger). 
Harpoons, spears, and earthen pots of narrow mouth are 
also used. The pots are large clay vessels sunk by stones 
or pieces of broken pots placed inside. They are perforated 
and baited before they are sunk, when they are placed on 
the side so as to admit of easy entry of fish. If placed in 
deep water they are connected by a leading-string to a 
papyrus stalk or other branch from the overhanging bank. 
In shallow water the position is staked. Such traps are 
occasionally visited, which is done as quietly as possible, 
when the mouths are closed by means of a small calabash 
in possession of visitor, the contents being thus secured. 
The devices as to killing fish when caught are primitive 
and cruel in our estimate. Canoes are generally supplied 
with short stout clubs used for pounding the life out of the 
fish. Large stones are in like manner used. Canoes are 
so easy to capsize that large fish, when hooked, are allowed 
to exhaust themselves, or are killed by thrusts of a spear 
from the canoe. 
I remember in Lagos lagoon seeing a large fish hooked 
and dragged to the side of a one-handed canoe, from which 
the occupant was engaged in killing his find by repeated 
rams of the whole handle of his paddle down the throat 
and stomach of the poor fish. 
Drift-nets are resorted to, but chiefly in still sea or fresh 
water, the suspending ropes being of grass or of some fibre 
and floated by small calabashes or pieces of bamboo or. 
wood. 
An ingenious device for capture resorted to behind Axim 
is described as follows in the ‘To the Gold Coast for 
Gold’ :— 
