When he grabs you, dat progs your hopes a good deal.

When a big fish do de same, dat progs you deeper.

An' when a real walloper almost pulls you into de ribber, dat progs your heart up into your t'roat, where it stick till you land him." With surroundings and capacities such as we have attempted to describe, it is no wonder that Moses sat down on the river-bank and enjoyed himself, in company with a little Malay boy, who lent him his bamboo rod and volunteered to show him the pools.
But there were no particular pools in that river It was a succession of pools, and fish swarmed in all of them.

There were at least fifteen different species which nothing short of an ichthyologist could enumerate correctly.

The line used by Moses was a single fibre of bark almost as strong as gut; the hook was a white tinned weapon like a small anchor, supplied by traders, and meant originally for service in the deep sea.