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cured ;it Karliik oue luuKlrod aud seveuty-five barrels of red salmou in less tbau four days witb 

 teu natives at work. The natives do everything but salt the fish; this Captain Bowen does 

 himself. Ten men could average fifty barrels a day easily if a vessel could lie there every day, 

 but Karluk is open to the sea. With proper buildings ashore ten thousand barrels might be put 

 up in a season. At Karluk the salmou are thicker on the flood tide, becoming thicker as the tide 

 rises, but going off at high water. Looking down into the water, it would seem that a lead-pencil 

 could not be passed down between the densely crowded fish ; a bidarka cannot be paddled over 

 them wheii the salmon are thick. 



Rod salmon are abundant every year at Karluk. There is perhaps no better place in Alaska 

 for the establishment of a great salmon fishery. 



The following are the principal food and bait fishes of Kodiak Parish: 



Pleuronectes stellatus, Pallas. Hexagrammus ordinatus, Cope. 



" quadrituberculatus, Pallas. " superciliosus, (Pall.) Jor. & Gilb. 



Lepidopsetta biliueata, (Ayres) Gilb. " decagrammus,(Pall.) Jor. & Gilb. 



Limauda aspera, (Pall.) Bean. Pleurogrammus monopterygius, (Pall.) Gill. 



Hippoglossoides elassodon, Jor. & Gilb. Ammodytes personatus, Girard. 



Hippoglossus vulgaris, Plem. Mallotus villosus, (Miiller) Cuv. 



Atheresthes stomias, Jor. & Gilb. Thaleichthys pacificu-s, (Rich.) Girard. 

 Pollachius chalcogrammus, (Pall.) Jor. & Gilb. Salveliuus malma, (Walb.) Jor. & Gilb. 



Gadus morrhua, Linn. Salmo purpuratus, Pallas. 

 Tilesia gracilis, (Tiles.) Swainson. " Gairdnerii, Rich. 



Cottus polyacanthocephalus, Pallas. Oncorhyuchus chouicha, (Walb.) Jor. & Gilb. 

 Hemilepidotus trachurus, (Pall.) Giinther. " keta, (Walb.) Gill & Jor. 



" Jordanii, Bean. " nerka, (Walb.) Gill & Jor. 



Sebastichthys melanops, (Grd.) Jor. & Gilb. " kisutch, (Walb.) Jor. & Gilb. 



" ciliatus, (Tiles.) " gorbuscha, (Walb.) Gill & Jor. 



Hexagrammus asper, Steller. Clupea mirabilis, Girard. 



The following arc the names of fishes given to us on the voyage from Alexuudrovsk to Saint 

 Paul, Kodiak, by a native of the island of Kodiak. The species were all shown to him except tlie 

 Icrasnoi r'lba : 



Gadus morrhua Ah-mo-doc. 



Tilesia gracilis Sah-ke-lakh. 



Muraenoidcs ornatus Poolakh. 



Ammodytes personatus Ah-zhing ah-ryeerk. 



Hemilepidotus Kah-log. 



Cottus polyacanthocephalus Ki-oo-loong-chook. 



Gasterosteus cataphractus . .E-lach-enakh. 



Mallotus villosus She-gakh. 



Salveliuus malma Ahu-chuck. 



Oncorhynchus gorbuscha Ah-mahkee akh. 



keta Ah-lay-makh. 



nerka Xee-klee-uk. 



Xames of other objects : 



Littorina E-book. 



Diomedea brachyura Kay-may-ryeerk. 



Explanation. — A is sounded as in father, except in the second syllable of Ah-lay-makh, 

 and in the first two syllables of Kay mayryeerk. The names express as nearly as possible the 

 sounds used by the native in conveying his identification of the objects to me. 



