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ever make any, though they are glad enough to get 
them from Europeans. 
The large fresh-water lobster is sometimes pro- 
cured by diving, in which case the females are 
generally employed, as the weather is cold, and 
night is the best time to procure them. It is ex- 
traordinary to see a party of women plunge into 
the water on a cold dark night, and swim and dive 
about amongst logs, stumps, roots, and weeds with- 
out ever hurting themselves, and seldom failing to 
obtai the object of their search. 
Turtle are procured in the same way, but gene- 
rally by the men, and in the day time. 
Muscles of a very large kind are also got by diving. 
The women whose duty it is to collect these, go 
into the water with small nets (len-ko) hung round 
their necks, and diving to the bottom pick up as 
many as they can, put them into their bags, and 
rise to the surface for fresh air, repeating the ope- 
ration until their bags have been filled. They have 
the power of remaining for a long time under the 
water, and when they rise to the surface for air, the 
head and sometimes the mouth only is exposed. A 
stranger suddenly coming to the river when they 
were all below, would be puzzled to make out what 
the black objects were, so frequently appearing and 
disappearing in the water. 
Cray-fish of the small kind (u-kod-ko) weighing 
from four to six ounces are obtained by the women 
wading into the water as already described, or by 
men wading and using a large bow-net, called a 
