Wonders of bodily strength and skill, in all ages and countries (1885)
Depping, Guillaume, 1829-1901, Russell, Charles, tr · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 316
cultivating their talents. They do notcontent themselves with fighting and the chase ; they evenfish with the arrow. The Yurucares of Bolivia, South America, launch uponthe water a raft made of poles lashed together. On thisfrail support they go forth to fish, armed with their bowsand with arrows… … FISHING WITH THE JAVELIN. THE BOW IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 315 middle of the raft, and the other two, one at each end, sothat the passing fish could not escape the three. Whenone missed, which happened very seldom, he was hookedby his companions. In the north of the same hemisphere the Indians…
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