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that the Women got were mostly eaten by themselves
and the children, the men mostly eat what they got
by hunting, In diging for "Towuck", the Women, who
always did this, must have had hard work, as the
holes left by them show, it went very deep & some of
the holes are four or five feet deep = like a shallow
well, the Brushes were full of "Towuck holes" prioncipally
in the Brushes on the side of the Creeks that came
down out of the Mountains like Stoney Creek, they
only had the "yam stick" to dig them with = and their
hands to remove the soil, The Women as well as the Men
did a lot of fishing = they made the fishing lines, but I
never heard of them making nets to catch fish, but on
the Cockbourn River I saw a Darkie once use a sort
of hoopnet to catch a Murray Cod = they were a slugish
fish and he held the net and coaxed the fish into
it with a spear and so lifted it out, but I never
heard of that being used in this locality = how
they caught small fish before the Whites came I do
not konw = they used Whitefellows fish hooks when
we came, but down the River - in the Salt Wter
they used hooks made of that strong rib that
is on the outside of those ear shells, when fishing
for Jewfish from a canoe, they made the line
fast to a ight peice of wood and when they got
a Jew hooked threw it out and let the Jew pull
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