SALMON. 57 
as Puget’s Sound) was frequented at the time by 
such myriads of the salmon, that a stone could 
not have reached the bottom without touching 
several individuals—their abundance surpassing 
imagination to conceive.’ He goes on to say, 
that in a little brook they killed sixty with their 
boarding-pikes.. Then, he says, the hump before 
the dorsal fin consists of fat, and appears to 
be peculiar to the males, who acquire it after 
spawning-time, when their snouts become elon- 
gated and arched. 
The Fall-salmon (Salmo lycaodon) differ most 
extraordinarily at different periods of their 
growth—so much so, that I quite believed the 
adult, middle-aged, and young were three dis- 
tinct and well-marked species; but Dr. A. Giin- 
ther has very kindly investigated the matter, 
and knocked my three species into one. 
Indians take the young of this salmon in large 
numbers in the bays, harbours, and _fiord-like 
inlets surrounding the island, and along the 
British Columbian and Oregon coasts ; also in the 
Sumass, Chilukweyuk, and Sweltza rivers, and in- 
deed in all inland lakes that are accessible to fish 
from the sea. These handsome, troutlike young 
salmon are easily caught with bait of any kind; 
they rise readily to a gaudy fly, and seize even 
