THE MOST CURIOUS CITY IN THE WORLD.
One of the most curious cities in the world is jurfl about disappearing for a time, to re-appear when next winter comes. It consists of wooden huts' on wheels to the number of about 1 30, which, when the season arrives, arc rolled on to the ice in Saginaw Bay, L«*ke Huron. The population of t.'ris " city without a uauiu is about 500. Each hut is furnished with cooking uten&ils, hammocks, and a store, and is occupied by three men whose business on tueui is to follow a peculiar method of fishing, , In the centre of each lift a hole is 'dug to the water about a yard square". ' One of 'the fishermen fhen takes a live fish related to the hem-ing; tribe, anil after fastening it to a piece of pibdv- Lhrj&l drops it iuto the water.
The fish dashes away swift as an arrow, until it is pulled np by the thread, whoa it returns towards the hole followed by a host of pike and othor Inriyp fish dem-ons to feast on the dainty morsel. B«<ti'le the hole sinnd the fishermenv harpoon in hand, vrnitint? the arrival of the pursuer*, who nre. received with thrusts of the four or five- pronged! instrnme.nt, which rarely fails to brim? up some writhimr victim":*. Some huts can show 200 nn-i upwards of fine fish at the end of tho <kv'? work, ( The most weird nppear.mee of this city is at ni<rht, when t^e'fi^henin'n prosecute the work by the Yv:H of torches, which, as is well known, attract Gsh without the aid of the hi'rrinsr-hait. The urhmcimr torfhes and the shadows of the men leaning over the holes make a strange spectacle. If fish nve not abundant in the spot first chosen, the hnt is wheeled to anofchei] site. This city of fishes is nhont ten' miles from Bay City, and six miles from j (ho mouth of the "ftai??naw River and the hanks of the lake. The road thither on the ice is much frequented, not only by thoa-* who have business there, but also by the curious, Wno find the interest in t ; ie exclusion eulunced by the mnqnificent conrsi* For sleijrhilrivins which (he ten miles of ice presents.
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Te Aroha News, Volume 1, Issue 18, 6 October 1883, Page 4
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376THE MOST CURIOUS CITY IN THE WORLD. Te Aroha News, Volume 1, Issue 18, 6 October 1883, Page 4
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