362 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



giauts, and other offspring of their ever-fruitful imaginations, rendered 

 famous whatever localities the apparitions were said to frequent. 



Eaftsmeu accustomed to pass along Grand Lake assured me that they 

 had often seen a shoal of Togues depositing their spawn, and surrounded 

 by thousands of eels, horupouts, dace, &c., which assemble to feed on 

 the ova ; moreover, that neither the males nor the females remain beyond 

 a few days on the ground. Sometimes the roe is deposited between 

 stones, where the males may be observed fertilizing it. At this 

 season the Indian plies his spear unmercifully, killing hundreds and 

 wounding more. The flesh varies in color, from orange to cream color 

 — according, I imagine, to the season of the year. As an article of food 

 it is very fat, with little flavor, unless in the shape of " fish-cake well 

 seasoned by Harvey's sauce," when the fisherman's appetite will pro- 

 nounce it a delicacy, only surpassed a hundredfold by a broiled or fried 

 brook-trout, or its congener the silvery salmon-trout. 



