One end of this Rattan is stuck in the fisher's girdle, and the other knotted, that the fish should not slip off: which when it is full, he discharges himself of them by carrying them ashore.

Nay every ditch and little plash of water but anckle deep hath fish in it.
The great River, Mavela-gonga, abounds exceedingly with them.

Some of them as big as Salmons.

But the people have little understanding in the way of taking them.

[How they catch Fish in the River.] In very dry weather, they stretch a With over the River, which they hang all full of boughs of Trees to scare the Fish.