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and then skewer him open with two sticks. Poles, 

 having a fork at the end, are placed firmly in the 

 ground, about fifteen feet apart. Other sticks, 

 barked and rubbed very smooth, are placed in these 

 forked ends, on which the split trout are strung. 

 Small fires are kept smouldering below the strung- 

 up fish. When thoroughly dry, they are packed 

 in small bales, and lashed with the bark of the 

 cedar-tree. 



CANDLE-FISH. The Candle-fish or Eulachon, 

 Salmo (maUotus} Pacificus, Rich. F. B. A., p. 227; 

 Thaleiclithys Pacificus, Grd. Sp. Ch. : Head 

 somewhat pointed and conical; mouth large, 

 its fissure extending back to the anterior mar- 

 gin of the orbit; opercule terminated by a 

 rounded angle, lower jaw projecting a little 

 beyond the upper one ; tongue rough, teeth 

 on the pharyngeals ; lower jaw, palatines, 

 and vomer devoid of teeth; eye rather small; 

 adipose fin, placed opposite the hind portion of 

 the anal; scales subelliptical. Dorsal region 

 greenish-olive colour, generally silvery-white, 

 sparsely spotted with dirty yellow; a dark spot, 

 nearly black, over each orbit. 



A human body is a kind of locomotive furnace, 

 that has to be kept up to a given temperature 

 by fuel, its food. Under a tropical sun, not 



