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LAGOON FISHING. 
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“ The fishing in the eastern lagoon takes place mainly in 
the neighbourhood of Najtskaj, at a distance of about five 
kilometres from the village. Hooks are exclusively used, and 
no nets or other fishing implements. In a few minutes I saw 
twenty cod {urohadlin) caught, and about as many small fish, 
called by the natives nukionuUo. For the fishing the natives 
make a hole in the ice, a decimetre in diameter. Round the 
hole they build, as a protection against wind and drifting snow, 
a snow wall eighty centimetres high, forming a circle with an 
inner diameter of a metre and a half. The fish-hooks are of 
iron and are not barbed. The line is about five metres long, 
THE COAST BETWEEN PADLJONNA AND ENJUKMI.] 
To the west Idlidlja Island, in the background the village Tjapka, to the right the great lagoon. 
(After a drawing by O. Nordqnist.) 
and is fixed to a rod nearly a metre in length. At the end of 
the angling line hangs a weight of bone, and beside it the hook. 
It is generally the women who fish, yet there are generally two 
or three men about to open the holes, build the walls, and keep 
the fishing-places clear. All the holes with their shelter-walls 
lie in an arc, about a kilometre in length, whose convex side is 
turned to the east. The ice in the lagoon was 1’7 metre thick, 
the water 3-2 metres deep, and the thickness of snow on the 
ice O'3 metre. 
“ The day after our arrival at Najtskaj we visited the village 
Tjapka, which lies at a distance of six kilometres. This village 
