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Leopoldville we had film and some gear that we had to air freight over 
to keep us going. With this are a few post cards in lieu of some of 
your "own" (made possible) photos of the Wagenia fishermen. They are 
the most noted of the Congo fishing people with their wiers and oane 
nets stretched across the Congo just above the city on the fall side 
of the last or lower most of the seven cataracts forming the so called 
Stanley/ Falls, The Wagenians are iiard working, industrious, people, 
fishing as did their ancestors before the white man came. (Wlien I 
get back I shall try to run down the first report of this fishery that 
was ever marie. The cards show the cone traps or nets, the scaffolding 
from which they are lowered and raised in the water and seme of the 
people, the nets have the water pouring through them dan and night. 
They are raised twice a day and the hapless fish removed the force 
of the water carrier the fish in and they cannot make their way out 
again against it. I am moved to call the Wagenians, the Human King 
Fishers of the Congo, their unique rig it would seem, entitles them 
to some such title. Therefore we have endeavoured to show something 
of their mode of life, work, play, homes, and fish weir and traps. 
Everything used in the fishery they make themselves frcmi wood, branches, 
and vines they bring in, in their canoes (dugouts) from the forests 
across or fax’ther up the river. It’s really remarkable what they can 
do without using anything pro by the white man, rope, nails, 
or wire, and I much doubt if the white mans materials would hold up 
as well. The Wagenians in their fishery have neither a rust or supply 
problem the resources of the nearby jungles are seemingly limitless. 
