64 FISH HARVESTING. 



ropemaker using neither tools nor machinery, 

 but simply the hand and naked thigh. 



The first salmon entering the Columbia are 

 taken at Chinook Point, a short distance above 

 Cape Disappointment, near the mouth of the 

 river. These are known as ' Chinook salmon,' 

 and are celebrated, not only in the immediate 

 neighbourhood but in the markets of San 



o 



Francisco, as the fattest and finest-flavoured 

 salmon taken on the coast; they are large, 

 ranging from 351bs. to 701bs. in weight. 



In June the grand army arrives. We need 

 not linger at the old fishery of the Chinook 

 Indians, so prosperous fifty years ago. The 

 Indians have disappeared; but the salmon army 

 marches on, with little interruption, until they 

 have arrived at the Cascades. 



Here we must remain awhile, and see for 

 ourselves how the red man harvests his salmon. 

 Salmon is quite as essential to the Indians 

 residing inland as grain to us, or bananas and 

 plantains to the residents in the tropics : gleaning 

 the regular supply of fish, the Indian literally 

 harvests and garners it as we reap our grain-crops. 

 It cannot be by mere chance that fish are 

 prompted, by an unalterable instinct, to thread 

 their way into the farthest recesses of the moun- 



