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adventurous fish that runs the gauntlet of this 

 perilous passage ! 



But the most curious contrivance I saw was 

 at Johnson's Narrows. I have said salmon readily 

 take a bait when in saltwater. The Indians when 

 fishing use two spears, one about seventy feet in 

 length ; the other shorter, having a barbed end, is 

 about twenty feet long. In a canoe thus equipped, 

 favourable fishing-grounds are sought, the In- 

 dian having the long spear being also provided 

 with a small hollow cone of wood, trimmed round 

 its greater circumference with small feathers, 

 much like a shuttlecock; this he places on the 

 end of the longer spear, and presses it under 

 water, until clown the full length of the handle ; 

 a skilful jerk detaches this conelike affair from 

 the spear-haft, when it wriggles up through the 

 water like a struggling fish. The savage with 

 the short spear intently watches this deceiver; a 

 salmon runs at it, and it is speared like magic. 



Next in importance amongst the Salmoiiidas 

 is the Oregon Brook Trout, Fario stellatus (Grd. 

 Proc. Acad., Phil. Nat. Soc., viii. 219). 



Specific Characters. Head rather large, con- 

 tained four-and-a-half times in the total length ; 

 maxillary reaching a vertical line drawn behind 

 the orbit. Colour of the back bright olive- 



