We were armed with different weapons of offence

TCD MS 10515 folio 126a recto

TCD MS 10515 folio 126a recto

Barbed wire, anchors, cables, tentpegs, sandbags, foodstuffs innumerable were some of the varied commodoties that, one morning were being un-loaded on the banks. Sometimes I attempt a gentle fishing in the Evening. One day we set off for a spot, at the junction of a shallow tributary with the main stream, where we had seen the fish feeding in enormous shoals. We were armed with different weapons of offence; an iron spike, a spear, a gaff, a strokehaul and put every effort into the attack, but, though the waters boiled with the splashings of mud-fish, we met with no success: I think a small harpoon would have been a better weapon.