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in order to bring fish from great distances, it was absolutely 

 necessary to freeze them, but merely for bringing them from 

 the trawlers to the market the cooling could be accom- 

 plished by cold-air machines, which might be made to 

 occupy a very small space fixed against the bulkhead of a 

 ship, and would require very little attention. With regard 

 to the fish not looking well after they were thawed, he 

 could bear testimony to the fact that nobody, except per- 

 haps an expert, could tell the difference between a fish 

 which had been frozen and one which had not. 



Dr. Rae said if any one wished to see specimens of frozen 

 fish they could easily gratify their curiosity in the Exhibi- 

 tion by visiting the Hudson's Bay Company's exhibits. 

 He had only just been looking at them, and thought they 

 quite bore out what was said by the last speaker, for no 

 one hardly would suppose the fish had been frozen, and 

 those who ate them could not tell the difference. He was 

 not now speaking of common kinds of fish, but of salmon, 

 though in one part of the Hudson's Bay territory the whole 

 people lived on frozen fish for a considerable time. All 

 the men in the employ of the Company on the Makintz 

 River were fed on this, and it was one of the best diets 

 they had, though they ate them without bread or potatoes. 

 He had lived there several years himself, and had had but 

 little else than fish to eat. They could even notice the dis- 

 tinction between meat-eating and fish-eating men on seeing 

 them together. The men who lived on animal food alto- 

 gether, as used to be the case in the old buffalo days, had 

 a more dried-up look ; they worked well, but they had not 

 the wholesome fresh look that the fish-eating men had. 

 He was certainly convinced that fish was not injured seri- 

 ously by being frozen, for it was kept there many months 

 in that state. 



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