Scribner's magazine . Hikori Wanami Hikori Sunami. vines ; with this the river was draggedat a narrow part for a distance of aboutthree hundred yards, the operation tak-ing about twenty minutes. Men oneither shore carried the rope along, andothers in the water pushed the net,holding it at the right height to inter-cept the fish. The catch upon one oc-casion that I remember, was more thaneighty big suckers, of three or fourpounds apiece, which were picked outby hand by men standing in the pocketmade by the net as it was drawn onshore. The smaller fish were taken outwith a blanket used as a dipp
Scribner's magazine . Hikori Wanami Hikori Sunami. vines ; with this the river was draggedat a narrow part for a distance of aboutthree hundred yards, the operation tak-ing about twenty minutes. Men oneither shore carried the rope along, andothers in the water pushed the net,holding it at the right height to inter-cept the fish. The catch upon one oc-casion that I remember, was more thaneighty big suckers, of three or fourpounds apiece, which were picked outby hand by men standing in the pocketmade by the net as it was drawn onshore. The smaller fish were taken outwith a blanket used as a dipping should say that there was more thana cartload of fish. This account of the Tara-humaris is necessarily briefand incomplete. But I can-not bring it to a close with-out reference to one of theirmost curious and importantsuperstitions, plant w^ the Indian, everything innature is alive, and even theplants could not grow if theyhad no souls. Many of themare supposed to talk and singand feel pain like our
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