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in fresh-water. Allowing for the consumption 
of material requisite for the purposes of repro- 
duction, and the wear-and-tear consequent on 
making their way up stiff currents, leaping 
falls, and laboriously toiling up rocky canions— 
still I contend, if only a partial equivalent was 
resupplied in the shape of food, waste would not 
go on to the actual death of the muscles, that 
slough away in large pieces, as the exhausted 
fish makes feeble efforts to struggle on; dying 
at last a loathsome mass of rotting animal 
matter. 
Sores, in both male and female fish, often arise 
from injuries inflicted by the teeth of a jealous 
adversary ; but these wounds are utterly differ- 
ent from the sloughing ulcer, arising, as I be- 
lieve, from sheer lack of vital force. These 
salmon veritably consume themselves, and perish, 
when life’s stove burns out, for want of fuel to 
keep it alight. 
In August the Chilukweyuk river became per- 
fectly unendurable from the quantities of dead fish 
floating down. I had with mea splendid retriever, 
that, to my disgust and annoyance, used to amuse 
himself, durmg my absence from the tent, by 
swimming in after the floating salmon, bring- 
ing them ashore, and safely storing them in my 
