35* 
MANAT I. 
goes and returns with the tide up and down the 
rivers Mefen and Jefma •, where the fifhermen take 
them in nets of ropes and kill them with fpears, 
and each yields two vats and a half of train, oil; fo 
that if the capture is lucky a fhip of 200 tuns may 
be loaded in two tides 
* Muller’s Kamtfchatkan expedition, German ed. p, 253. Purchases 
Pilgrims 3 III. 549. 
Piv. IV. 
