A true and faithful account of the four chiefest plantations of the English in America to wit, of Virginia, New-England, Bermudus, Barbados : with the temperature of the air, the nature of the soil, the rivers, mountains, beasts, fowls, birds, fishes, trees, plants, fruits, &c. : as also, of the natives of Virginia, and New-England, their religion, customs, fishing, hunting, &c. / collected by Samuel Clarke ...

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Title: A true and faithful account of the four chiefest plantations of the English in America to wit, of Virginia, New-England, Bermudus, Barbados : with the temperature of the air, the nature of the soil, the rivers, mountains, beasts, fowls, birds, fishes, trees, plants, fruits, &c. : as also, of the natives of Virginia, and New-England, their religion, customs, fishing, hunting, &c. / collected by Samuel Clarke ...
Author: Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.
Publication: London :: Printed for Robert Clavel, Thomas Passenger, William Cadman, William Whitwood, Thomas Sawbridge, and William Birch,; 1670.
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Of their Fishings.

They are very expert in fishing, knowing all kinds of baits fit for each se∣veral sorts of fish, and for all seasons of the year. They know also when to fish in the Rivers, when at the Rocks, when in the Bayes, and when at the Seas: Before the English furnished them with Hooks and Lines, they made Lines of their own Hemp, curiously wrought, stronger than ours, and used bone-hooks; They make also strong Nets, wherewith they, catch Sturgion; and in the night they go forth in their canooes with a bla∣zing Torch, which they wave up and down, with which the Sturgion being delighted, playes about it, turning up her white belly, into which they thrust a bearded Dart, her back being impenetrable, and so hale her to the shoar. They look out also for sleeping Seals, whose Oyl they much esteem, using it for divers things.