48 FISH HARVESTING. 
canvas dwelling ; and on my return I used to dis- 
cover a heap of fish, the stench from which was 
beyond human endurance. If fastened out from 
the tent, he piled them up at the door: all the 
lessons bestowed on him failed to convince him 
of his folly; he stuck to his disagreeable habit 
with a perseverance worthy of a better cause. 
Arriving a little later than the preceding, is a 
smaller fish, which I believe to be the Salmo 
paucidens (Weak-Toothed Salmon) of Sir J. Rich- 
ardson, F. B. A., p. 223; the red charr of Lewis 
and Clark, but the red they allude to is a colour 
every one of the different species acquire after 
being a short time in the rivers. 
This fish seldom attains a weight over from 
three to five pounds, and is called by the In- 
dians, at the salmon-leap at Colville on the Co- 
lumbia, stzoin ; it is a very handsome fish, back 
nearly straight, a light sea-greenish colour; sides 
and belly silvery-white, tail very forked, fins 
and tail devoid of any spots; the teeth are wide 
apart, and not strongly implanted. I was dis- 
posed at first to think they were the young of 
some other species; but the Indians are posi- 
tive they are not, and they spawn much as 
the others do. In a small stream or tributary 
to the Chilukweyuk river, a mountain-torrent 
