times a yard deep one 4:ipon another, the 
beds a quarter of a mile in length, and left, 
the Ahmves they take with Nets like a 
purfenet put upon around hoopM ftick 
with a handle in frcfti ponds where they 
cometo fpawn. The Bafs and Bkrp-fifh thcY 
tajke in harbours, and at the mouth of 
barr'd Rivers being in their C^^^??^/, ftriking 
them with a fifgig, ^ kind of dart or ftaff, 
to the lower end whereof they hRcn a 
fiiarp jagged bone f fince they make them 
of Iron ) with a ftring fattened to it, as foon 
as the fifli isKfiruck they pull away the ftaiF, 
leaving the 6oay head in the fifties body and 
faften the other end of the firing to the 
Camn> : Thus they will hale after them to 
fhore half a dozen or half a fcorc great 
fifties: this way they take Sturgeon h and in 
dark evenings when they are upon the fiOi- 
iog grouftd near a Bar of Sand (where the 
Sturgeon feeds upon fmall fifties ( like Eals ) 
that are called Lances fucking theM out of 
the Sands where they lye hid, with their 
hollow Tfunks, for other mouth they have 
none) the Indian lights a piece of diy Birc&- 
B.^fi^ which breaks out into a flame & holds 
it over the fide of his Camw^iht Sturgeon 
feeing this glaring light mounts to the Sur- 
face of the water where he is flain and 
taken with a fifgig. Salmons and Lamfns 
are 
