48 FISH HARVESTING. 



canvas dwelling ; and on my return I used to dis- 

 cover a heap of fish, the stench from which was 

 beyond human endurance. If fastened out from 

 the tent, he piled them up at the door : all the 

 lessons bestowed on him failed to convince him 

 of his folly ; he stuck to his disagreeable habit 

 with a perseverance worthy of a better cause. 



Arriving a little later than the preceding, is a 

 smaller fish, which I believe to be the Salmo 

 paucidens (Weak-Toothed Salmon) of Sir J. Rich- 

 ardson, F. B. A., p. 223; the red cliarr of Lewis 

 and Clark, but the red they allude to is a colour 

 every one of the different species acquire after 

 being a short time in the rivers. 



This fish seldom attains a weight over from 

 three to five pounds, and is called by the In- 

 dians, at the salmon-leap at Colville on the Co- 

 lumbia, stzoin ; it is a very handsome fish, back 

 nearly straight, a light sea-greenish colour ; sides 

 and belly silvery-white, tail very forked, fins 

 and tail devoid of any spots ; the teeth are wide 

 apart, and not strongly implanted. I was dis- 

 posed at first to think they were the young of 

 some other species; but the Indians are posi- 

 tive they are not, and they spawn much as 

 the others do. In a small stream or tributary 

 to the Chilukweyuk river, a mountain-torrent 



