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no part of the whale which here does not find 

 its use. 



From the middle of May till our departure on the 

 21th of June, we caught great quantities of excellent 

 flat-fish, trout, and herrings. Upward of three hundred 

 of the former, besides a number of sea-trout, were 

 dragged out at one haul of the seine, the 15th of 

 May. These flat-fish are firm, and of a good flavour, 

 studded upon the back with round prickly knobs, 

 like turbot, and streaked with dark brown lines, 

 running from the head toward the tail. About the 

 end of May the first herring season begins. They 

 approach in great shoals, but do not remain long on 

 the coast. They had entirely left the bay before we 

 sailed out of it the first time, but were be<nnnin£r to 

 revisit it again in October. It has been already 

 mentioned, that the herrings were remarkably fine 

 and large, and that we filled a great part of our 

 empty casks with them. The beginning of June, 

 large quantities of excellent cod were taken, a part 

 of which were likewise salted. We caught too, at 

 different times, numbers of small fish, much re- 

 sembling a smelt, and once drew out a w 7 olf-fish. 



Notwithstanding this abundance of flat-fish, cod, 

 and herring, it is on the salmon fishery alone that the 

 Kamtschadales depend for their winter provisions. 

 Of these, it is said by naturalists, there are to be 

 found on this coast all the different species that are 

 known to exist, and which the natives formerly cha- 

 racterized by the different months in which they 

 ascend the rivers. They say, too, that though the 

 shoals of different sorts are seen to mount the rivers 

 at the same time, yet they never mix with each other; 

 that they always return to the same river in which 

 they were bred, but not till the third summer ; that 

 neither the male nor female live to regain the sea ; 

 that certain species frequent certain rivers, and are 

 never found in others, though they empty themselves 

 nearly at the same place. 



