The mode of knotting the nets is identical with our own.
They also spear the fish with javelins having a light handle, which readily floats on the surface.

They show great dexterity in harpooning the hippopotamus; and, the barbed blade of the spear being attached to a rope made of the young leaves of the palmyra, the animal can not rid himself of the canoe, attached to him in whale fashion, except by smashing it, which he not unfrequently does by his teeth or by a stroke of his hind foot.
On returning to the Bakurutse, we found that their canoes for fishing were simply large bundles of reeds tied together.

Such a canoe would be a ready extemporaneous pontoon for crossing any river that had reedy banks..