Show SHOOTING FISH IN GUIANA native indians indiana still adhere to use of bows and arrows arrow in this sport I 1 V although the guiana indians nil all use iguls guns for hunting same game they still ad abere to bows and arrows for killing fish and employ blow guns and bour loll all poisoned darts for securing birds and small animals the bows are usually ot of about live five fe teet et in length find very powerful ithe arrows vary according to tile the pur tose for which they tire are designed but all lare are long from five to six feet with shafts of arrow cane and a shank of hardwood fitted at one end this piece Is 3 tipped by a steel point or head which la Is fixed immovably if the arrow is for shooting birds or small or if used for killing turtle and large fish la Is equipped with a docketed sock eted head bead attached to it n long strong cotton line when a large fish Is struck the shaft floats free from the sock eted head which acts as a toggle and turns at right angles when a strain hs Is put on the line by means of this harpoon like arrangement the fish or turtle Is ig hauled in neither fish nor turtle arrows are feathered but those used in hunting birds fire are with two feathers which seem far too small to serve any useful purpose se with these simple weapons the indians creep along the rocky edges of the streams and eddies and with mar ma r telous dexterity shoot the fish which only their eyes can discern deep beneath the surface naked na led save tor for a lap or loin loincloth cloth the hunter stands motionless as a statue with drawn bow and poised arrow and if no fish tire are visible within range he calls them by a peculiar beckoning motion of his hand and a low whistle whether or not the fish actually respond to this command I 1 cannot say but the indians affirm that they do and when this method falls fails the savages resort to attracting the fish with in range by throwing certain pods and seeds into the water A hyatt verrill in harpers magazine |