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canoes for trolliiij*;, ami .imaged through the ice of the lakes for white- 
fish, trout, and salmon troutd For set lines the natives used a 
gorge — a short pencil of bone or hardened wood sharpened at both 
ends and inserted inside a piece of meat or fish, with the line attached 
to the middle. The eastern Indians capturerl large numbers of 
sturgeon, salmon, and eels with torches and spears. “ Two men go 
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Coioiiatioii (Jdir Eskimo si>earinff salmon tioiit. (I'ltolo hi/ IK Jcnne'tft.} 
together in a canoe at night; the one sits in tlie stern and ])addles 
and the other stands with a spear over a flambeau (of birch bark) 
placed in the head of the canoe. The fish, attracted by the light, 
come in numbers around the canoe, and the spearman then takes 
the opportunity of striking them.”- Some tribes in British Columbia 
similarly speared (or cluljbed) by night the salmon that were migrat- 
1 The Eskimo raucht also a fe\\’ loek-cocl through erarks in the sea ire during the autumn and 
spring. 
- I.: "Travels thrmigli llie Stales of Xoi'th .Aiiteriea" : p. 29a tl.iuidoii. 1799). Cf. Thompson: 
Op. cit., I'P- 267-8, ami " Tlie Jesuit Kehilioiis ” ami .Allied Doeiiiiients; edileil by Thwailes, R. (b: 
vol. vi, p. 311 (Cleveland, 1897), The iliemae of Xova .Seotia, and the Bella Coola and neighbouring 
tribes of Britisli Coliiinbia, caught gec.se, ducks, and 1 rant in the same way, the former employing 
rlub.s in.sfead of spear.-, the latli-r UsUig a net, shapei! among the Bella CAiola like a laero.sse stick. 
Denys, N. : " Dc^serii>t ifm and N'afur.nl History of the Coast.-., of Xorlli .\ineriea (Acadia)"; edited by 
Ganong, W. J. : p. 4,35, The Champlain Society (Toronto, 1908); Melhvraith, T. F. : ALS., The .Social 
Organization of the Bella Coola"; Xal. Mu.s.. Canada; Hons, F, : "The Kwakiiitl. Vancouver Island"; 
Am. Aius. Xaf, Hist., Mem. 8. Jesuit Expedition ^■ol. v, p. .51.5. .Jewitt: Op. <'it., p. 188. 
