132 EISH HARVESTING. 



thing of reasonable size venture near then head 

 down, and plying all his propellers to their 

 utmost power, he charges at them, driving his 

 horns in to the very hilt; free again, seizes hold 

 with his mouth thus biting and stabbing, 

 until he kills or routs his foe. I am not able 

 to say exactly how long the eggs are incubating, 

 but, as nearly as I could observe them (in the 

 Sumass and Chilukweyuk streams), in about 

 eight weeks the young escape from the egg- 

 house. The females were invariably driven away, 

 with the same ferocity as other unwelcome 

 guests, from the depositing the spawn to the 

 exit of the infant fish : then old and young dis- 

 appear into deeper water, and are seldom seen 



again. 



During the whiter, I constantly obtained the 

 bullheads from out the seine-nets used in Esqui- 

 malt Harbour to procure fish for the supply of 

 Victoria market. Rejected by the fishermen, 

 the Indians greedily gathered up the despised 

 fishes, broiled them over the lodge-fire empaled 

 on a slender twig, then feasted right-royally on 

 the grilled remains of the spiny martyrs. 



The genus Centridermichthys is characterised 

 as follows : Head more or less depressed, 

 rounded anteriorly ; head and body covered 



