Show = FISHING WITH BOW AND ARROW Fisheren of Annum Never Use a Rcd and Line Did you ever see fishermen without line or net In Annam they consider I such tackle useless and the Annamese I arc successful in their own fashion I There the fishing party takes bows I and arrows and goes down to the bank I of the SongKol 0 Red rIver and creeping out on a log by the shore or pushing a native boat a short distance out they look down Into the clearwater clear-water for passing fish Every man I stands ready with an arrow on the bowstring and a a fish swims near I he transfxes il with unerring aim The Annamee are a strange people living In French CochlnChina but it Is uncertain whether they come of Chinese or of Malay steels The men arc outwardly cold and Impassive but are really very fond of their home educate their children carefully and consult with their wives on all minor tans matters lney nave one unusual charcterstc owing to thc peculiar formation of the great toe they arc able to plclt up small objects wIth theIr prehensile feet a marl by whIch It Is said that an Annamese of pure stock can be known They speak Chinese Chi-nese but through the influence of the French are fast becoming more or less Europeanize in language and manners man-ners Perhaps they w1 lear to fish I with hook and line and then cease beIng be-Ing nearly so picturesque as they are In the pIcture |