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4_50 King's River Canon thickly about the lake side, the branches hanging over the water, and the acorns falling into the lake. They eat the acorn whole, not shelling it. I thought this a very rare story, to say no more. The trammel net is run out from one shore horse-shoe-shape. Then the fishers in a rowboat slammed or flopped the water with great square pieces of leather on the ends of a pole. The fish frightened by the sound fled out towards the center of lake and were caught in the trammels of the net. Sometimes a "gar" would get |
4_51 Saturday, July 7, 1900 into the net. These are 6 to 8 ft.long and with exceedingly sharp teeth. In order to save the net it would be necessary to get around to the front, raise the net up and shoot the gar with a six-shooter. The fish are caught on the principle that they always go forward, at least never back out of a tight place or a net but strive to get through. _ - _ We have here a steady west wind-the first steady wind that we have encountered. It does not sound like the wind of the higher elevations among the firs but has the steady deep roar of the trades of the Coast Range |
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