Their skill and coolness in paddling across flooded rivers may still sometimes be witnessed.
Always needing fish, they placed their villages near the sea beaches or the rivers and lakes.

In their canoes they would paddle as far as twelve miles from land.

Amongst other fish they caught sharks, killing them before they hauled them into the crank canoes; or, joining forces, they would sweep some estuary with drag nets, and, with much yelling and splashing, drive the fish into a shallow corner.

There with club and spear dog-fish and smooth-hound would be done to death amid shouts and excitement.

Then would come a gorge on a grand scale, followed by business--the cutting into strips and drying of the shark-meat for winter food.