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a river. Thefe are ufually kept fenced 

 at the mouth, leaving only a final! open- 

 ing, three or fear feet in width, through 

 which the fifn enter with the tide of 

 flood in quePc of food. This opening 

 the Indian ftops, at the point of high 

 water, with a fence made from flicks, 

 tied together fo clofe, that the fifh can- 

 not efcape through them. Many of 

 thefe creeks are empty at low water, 

 and the fifh are found lying on the mud. 

 When this is not the cafe, the fifti are 

 intoxicated, by throwing into it a 

 bruifed root of Hiarra, at the point of 

 low water, and the fifh foon float mo- 

 tionlefs on the furface of the water, and 

 are then taken, 



Their ufual method of cooking all 

 animal food, is by boiling it either with 

 water, or the juice of Poifon Caflava, to 

 which they add fuch a quantity of Red 

 Pepper, as would inftantly excoriate the 



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