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tended over the belly a fungoid growth resembling 

 rough yellow blotting paper. 



The size of the fish was quite uniform, ranging from 

 two feet to thirty inches. 



But that I had seen the living spent fish in the bay, I 

 could have readily believed the truth of the impression 

 of many, that the act of spawning terminates the life of 

 the salmon of the Pacific coast. 



One more point on the salmon, and I will leave them. 



Upon our first arrival, we all indulged very heartily 

 upon them, and in two or three days, a new disease made 

 its appearance among us. A number of us were seized 

 with ver j severe gripes and cramps, and these lasted, in 

 all cases, for several days, and in some for a much longer 

 period, two of the men becoming so reduced that it 

 was necessary to send them to hospital. The direct 

 cause, our doctor ascertained, was the diet of salmon to 

 which we had taken ; and by regulating and reducing 

 the consumption, the difficulties were checked. 



In conclusion, I would say that I have made every 

 effort that would naturally occur to a fisherman to take 

 Alaska salmon with flies, of which I had good assort- 

 ment, and never got a rise. 



ALASKA TROUT. 



I am indebted to Professor Tarleton H. Bean for a 

 classification of the various trout, of which specimens 

 had been duly bottled and labelled, during our stay in 

 Alaska. I had fancied, from differences in the mark- 



