 | John Pinkerton - Discoveries in geography - 1812 - 1030 pages
...ihould they come, and fuch feldom nay to be left behind at low water ; nor could we catch any fiih with our hooks and lines all the while we lay there. In other places at low water they feek for cockles, mufcles, and periwincles : of thefe mell-fiih there are fewer ftill,... | |
 | Hakluyt Society - Australia - 1859 - 372 pages
...instruments to catch great fish, should they come, and such seldom stay to be left behind at low water, nor could we catch any fish with our hooks and lines all the while we lay there. In other places at low water they seek for cockles, mussels, and periwincles. Of these shell-fish there are fewer still,... | |
 | Richard Henry Major - Australia - 1859 - 356 pages
...attend there to search for them at low water. This small fry I take to be the top of their fishery : they have no instruments to catch great fish, should...they come, and such seldom stay to be left behind at low water, nor could we catch any fish with our hooks and lines all the while we lay there. In other... | |
 | Samuel Bennett - Australia - 1865 - 710 pages
...attend there to search for them at low water. This small fry I take to be the top of their fishery. They have no instruments to catch great fish should...they come, and such seldom stay to be left behind at low water ; nor could we catch any fish with our hooks and lines all the while we lay there. In other... | |
 | William Howitt - Australia - 1865 - 450 pages
...for them at low water. This small fry I take to be the top of their fishing ; they have no instrument to catch great fish, should they come, and such seldom stay to be left behind at low water : nor could we catch any fish with our hooks and lines all tbe while we lay there. Of the... | |
 | David Laing Purves - Discoveries in geography - 1874 - 856 pages
...attend there, to search for them at low water. This small fry I take to be the top of their fishery : they have no instruments to catch great fish, should...they come ; and such seldom stay to be left behind at low water : nor could we catch any fish with our hooks and lines all the while we lay there. In other... | |
 | Thomas Richards - New South Wales - 1883 - 816 pages
...This small fry I take to be the top of their fishery. They have no instruments to catch great * 7> fish should they come, and such seldom stay to be...In other places at low-water they seek for cockles, mussels, and periwinkles; of these shell-fish there are fewer still, so that their chiefest dependence... | |
 | Thomas Richards - New South Wales - 1883 - 820 pages
...attend there to search for them at low-water. This small fry I take to be the top of their fishery. They have no instruments to catch great fish should...at low-water; nor could we catch any fish with our books and lines all the while we lay there. In other places at low-water they seek for cockles, mussels,... | |
 | Esquire Thomas Richards - New South Wales - 1883 - 814 pages
...attend there to search for them at low-water. This small fry I take to be the top of their fishery. They have no instruments to catch great fish should they come, and such seldom stay to he left behind at low- water; nor could we catch any fish with our hooks and lines all the while we... | |
 | W. Frederic Morrison - New South Wales - 1888 - 622 pages
...children together. Their only food is a small sort of fish. They have no instrument to catch great fish, nor could we catch any fish with our hooks and lines all the while we lay there. In other places at low water they seek for cockles, mussels, and periwinkles, of these shell-fish there are fewer still,... | |
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Wares of Stone across little Coves or Branches of the Sea; every Tide bringing in the small Fish, and there leaving them for a Prey to these People, who constantly attend there to search for them at Low-water. 
