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is provided with a duct tapering almost to a point, which leads into the
basket not far from the middle of the whole cylinder. The fish, finding its
progress arrested by the obstruction in the stream close to the trap, rushes
into this conduit, and as it ends in sharp sticks, it suffices to deprivethe pri-
soner of any temptation to turn back!.

In some places, the four above described appliances are used conjointly.
Fig. 44 gives an idea of the arrangement which then results. The reader will
understand that G represents the weir with its assortment of verveaux, or
nazrweet, while the long rectangles to the right stand for the cylindrical
*kfintzai, whose lids or doors are at a, whence the fish are taken up. F is
a large beam over which the fisherman walks to release the apparatus by
relieving it of the big stone that keeps it down, while his wife, in a canoe,
empties it at the opposite end. Into these the Indian generally has to drive
the fish at night, which is secured in the morning.

The ’kintzai are occasionally used to capture smaller fish in the creeks.

In deep water it is only the vicinity of the shores that can be utilized.
Two kinds of traps, veritable automatic machines, may then serve the ends
of the fisherman. These are the @s (fig. 45) or the we (fig. 46). The working

of the former, which evinces no little ingenuity, may be understood by remark-
ing that the double lines in our diagram are intended for two of the four
stakes which hold the appliance in position. The fish enters at a and c, after

which its course is easily followed. The outlines e stand for the surface of
the water and A for the reservoir, where the salmon is finally captured.
‘Traps similar to the nazrwet and the ’k@ntzai are common all over northeastern

Siberia. Cf. Bush, “Reindeer, Dogs, and Snow-Shoes”, passim; Geo, Simpson, “Journey round
the World” etc.