The Wreck of the South Pole and Other Strange Tales — page 46: what you’re looking at

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The Wreck of the South Pole. 39 went out, sat down on the seashore and hypnotized the fish. When they are near it is an easy matter, but when they are at a distance the work is difficult, and sometimes he is away half a day before he can fill his basket.” -“T do not understand.” “He hypnotizes them. Gets them under the influence of his will, compels them to come to shore, when he picks them up.” This was quite a puzzle to me for several days, but at last I began to understand both what my host told me and also how the fisherman caught his fish with neither net nor hook. In connection with this I might mention a similar inci- dent with regard to hunting. When at home I had been fond of this kind of sport, and whenever on land took a trip through the woods for squirrels and along the water- ways for water fowl. This may seem a queer pastime for a sailor, but for thirty years I was a landsman and during that time acquired a love for sports which any number of years on the seas would never take away. Consequently after being in Theon a few weeks and becoming fully rested and restored to health, my old long- ing returned. But by this time I knew that it would be accounted, if not sacrilege, at least a very low down en- joyment, to go out hunting with my guns, even if they would be of any use, so I decided merely to go along with a hunter of the country and watch his manner of taking game, ECORNIEOOOKS (CO)