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awakening to my cares, I turned about, and in the 
evening regained our camp. 
On my return, I found fome of my companions 
fiftiing for trout, round about the edges of the float- 
ing nymphsea, and not unfuccefsfully, having then 
caught more than fufficient for us all. As the me- 
thod of taking thefe fifh is curious and Angular, I 
lhall juft mention it. 
They are taken with a hook and line, but with- 
out any bait. Two people are in a little canoe, one 
fitting in the ftern to fleer, and the other near the 
bow, having a rod ten or twelve feet in length, to 
one end of which is tied a flrong line, about twenty 
inches in length, to which are faflened three large 
hooks, back to back. Thefe are fixed very fecu rely, 
and covered with the white hair of a deer’s tail, 
fhreds of a red garter, and fome parti-coloured fea- 
thers, all which form a tuft or taffel, nearly as 
large as one’s fill, and entirely cover and conceal 
the hooks: this is called a bob. The fleerfman 
paddles foftly, and proceeds fiowly along fhore, 
keeping the boat parallel to it, at a diflance juft 
fufficient to admit the filherman to reach the edge 
of the floating weeds along fhore ; he now ingeni- 
oufly fwings the bob backwards and forwards, juft 
above the furface, and fometimes tips the water 
with it; when the unfortunate cheated trout in- 
ftantly iprings from under the weeds, and feizes the 
fuppofed prey. Thus he is caught without a poffi- 
bility of efcape, unlefs he break the hooks, line, or 
rod, which he, however, fometimes does by dint of 
ftrength ; but, to prevent this, the fifherman ufed 
to the {port, is careful not to raife the reed fuddenly 
up, but jerks it inftantly backwards, then fteadily 
drags the fturdy reluctant fiili to the fide of the 
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