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backbones, roes, and livers, which are roasted, 
skewered on sticks. 
When thoroughly dried the fish are packed in 
bales made of rush-mats, each bale weighing about 
fifty pounds, the bales being tightly lashed with 
bark-ropes. Packing in bales of equal weight 
facilitates an equitable division of the take. 
Horses are purposely brought to carry the fish 
back to winter-quarters, and two bales are easily 
packed on each horse. The fishing-season lasts 
for about two months: then the spoils are 
divided, and the place abandoned to its wonted 
quietude, until the following summer brings 
with it another harvest. 
During the drying, silicious sand is blown over 
the fish, and of course adheres to it. Constantly 
chewing this ‘ sanded salmon’ wears the teeth as 
if filed down, which I at first imagined them to be, 
until the true cause was discovered. I have an 
under-jaw in my possession whereon the teeth 
are quite level with the bony sockets of the jaw, 
worn away by the flinty sand. 
I question if in the world there is another spot 
where salmon are in ereater abundance, or taken 
with so little labour, as at the Kettle Falls; on 
the Columbia river. In all streams emptying 
into Puget’s Sound, in the Fraser river, and 
