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North Otago Times, 8 January 1908, Page 2 (Supplement)

! The most curious city in the world consists of wocvlen lults on wheels, to the number of nbout which, when the season arrives, arc rolled on to the ice of Saginaw Buy, Lake Huron, Tiie population of this city without n name is nbout !>OO. Ench hut is furnished with cooking utensils, hammocks, and a stove, and is occupied by three men, whose business on the ice is to follow a peculiar inethcyl of fishing. i In the centre of each hut a hole, nbout a yard square, is dug down to the water. One of the fishermen then takes a live fish of the herring tribe, and, after fastening it to a piece of packthread drops it into the water. The fish dashes away as swift as an arrow until it iB pulled up by the thread, when it returns towards tho hole, followed by a host ; of pike and other fish desirous to ' feast on theadainty morsel. Beside the hole stand the fishermen, harpoon in hand, waiting tho arrival of tho pursuers, who arc received with thrusts of the four or five-pronged instrument, which rarely fails t to bring up somo writhing victims. Somo huts can show 200 or more of fine fish at the end of a day's work. The most weird appearance of this city is at night, when the fishermen pursue their labours by the light of torches (which, as is well known, attract fish) without tho aid of tho herring bait. The glancing torches and tho shadows of the'men _ leaning over the holoa moke & strange ' spectacle, If fish aro not abundant in the spot first choson,. tho hut Is i wheeled to another sit®, , t