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and of tlK's[i(>il lliat it uttV»nls. ■■ Wiiianishe '" i.s t lie oi'tlioyraphv em- 

 ]il(i_vi'(l liy one of tlie earliest students and elosest obsevvers of the tisli — 

 ^Ir. .1. (t. A. Creigliton — throug-hout his article in Scribuer's Mayazinc 

 for ^lay. 18S!). while •• wananishe '' is ihat which the same author adopts, 

 not only in the title of his monograph in Shield's Aiiuriran Game Fishes, 

 but generally throughout that careful}}^ prepared ]>a])er. In Outing for 

 August. 1890, Mr. Geo. E. Mosle writes "wininish," and the spelling 

 •• winnouiohe" is that adopted in Lovell's Ciazetteer of British North 

 America. Mr. James Mackenzie of the old jSTorthwest Company visited 

 •■The Kings Posts" of the Saguenay and the Labradoi- coast in 1808, 

 and in the journal of his canoe jaunt which has been [)rinted by the Hon. 

 L. R. Masson. he speaks of a tish resembling salmon, a foot and a half 

 long, found in Lake St. .lohn. and called by the Indians " winanis." Mr.- 

 C. H. Farnhara, in the course ot his admirable story of the Canadian 

 voyageurs in Harper s Magazine for March. 1888, employs the name 

 ■ wannouicln'."' The Marquis of Lome has iiw^ented '" oiumiche," — if his 

 printer does him no injustice. This sjieUing appears at page 88 of 

 Canadian Pictures, published by the Eeligious Tract Society. Both Mr. 

 W. H. H. Murray and Mr. J. M. Lemoine — the former in his description 

 of the Lake St. John region (Quebec edition. 1888) and the latter in his 

 Historical and Sporting Notes on Quebec (edition of 1889) — employ the 

 foiMu •■ wananish/' So does Mr. Arthur Buies m his work on the 

 Saguenay. The English [)ronuncialion ol this orthogi'aphy resembles 

 somewhat closely that of the Indian name of the tish but not so nearly 

 as does the spelling already given from Mr. Creighton's article in Ameri- 

 can (rame Pishes. A. still clo.ser a])]iroach to the proper sound is found 

 in the English pronunciation of ■ wannanishe" which appears upon the 

 l)ermits to fish in his private waters in la grande décharge by Mr. W. A. 

 Grifliths. one of the earliest English-speaking frequenters of these waters. 

 Kit Clarke has adopted the name '• wininnish." which is to be found both 

 in The Practical Angler and in Where the Trout Hide, as well as in the 

 many charming contnbutions of their author to the columns of con- 

 temporary jieriodical litei'atui-e. ■• Wannanish " apjieared above the 

 signature oi' Mr. S. Webber in Forest and Stream on March 17th, 1894, 

 " Wenanishe" is found in a rejiort of a government exploratory survey 

 of the Saguenay, prepared by Mr. Nixon of the 66th Regiment, about 

 the year 1829. and Bouchette. in his Topographical Dictionary of Canada 

 calls the fish "awenanish," declaring that '■ the awenanish is said to be 

 the most delicious fresh Avater fish in the world." Rogers, in his Stada- 

 conût, Dejricta, follows the spelling of Bouchette. In his Sportsman's 

 fra^effeerMr. Charles Hallock gives us ■•ouininnish," and in the Canadian 

 Sportsman, of July 11th. 1890, I find "ouininiche," while exactly a week 

 later the same paper spells it "owaninach.'' Quebec dealers in the fish 

 have employed the names -'ouenaneshe" and "ouinenish." One of the 



