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VOYAGES DV SIEVR DE CHAMPLAIN 338 l'immortalite des ames, disans qu'apres leur deceds ils vont en vn lieu ou ils chantent comme les corbeaux.ca Reste a declarer la forme & maniere qu'ils vsent en leurs I...eurs pespesches. lls font plusieurs trous en rond sur la glace, & ches. celuy par ou ils doiuent tirer la seine a enuiron cinq pieds de long, & trois de large, puis comencent par ceste ouuerture a mettre leur filet, lequel ils attachent a vne perche de bois de six a sept pieds de long, & la mettent dessouz la glace, & la font courir de trou en trou, ou vn homme ou deux mettent les mains par iceux, prenant la perche ou est attache vn bout du filet, iusques a ce qu'ils viennent ioindre l'ouuerture de cinq a six pieds. Ce fait, ils laissent couler le rets au fonds de 1'eau, qui va bas, par le moyen de certaines petites pierres qu'ils attachet au bout, & estans au fonds de l'eau, ils le retirent a force de bras par ses deux bouts, & ainsi amenent le poisson qui se trouue prins dedans. a On a retranche ici un long passage ou il est parle des occupations et amusements des "sauvages" pendant l'hiver. (Voy. Vol. III, p. 163.)

Some of them believe in the immortality of souls, saying that after death they go to a place where they sing like crows. It remains to explain the method and procedure they adopt in fishing. They make several holes in a circle in the ice, and that through which they are to draw the seine is about five feet long and three wide. Then they begin to set their net through this opening ; they fasten it to a wooden pole six or seven feet long, and put the pole under the ice and pass it from hole to hole, where one or two men put their hands through and take hold of the pole to which one end of the net is tied, until they come back to the opening five or six feet long. Then they let the net drop to the bottom, which sinks by means of certain small stones fastened to the end of it. After it has been to the bottom they draw it up again by main force by its two ends, and thus they bring up the fish that are caught in it.


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