98 FISH HARVESTING. 
the White-fish (Coregonus albus), or ‘ Attihaw- 
meg’ (which means ‘ reindeer of the sea’), being 
of like importance to those residing east of the 
mountains. There the Indians frequently have 
to subsist entirely on white-fish, and, at many 
of the fur-trading stations, the traders get very 
little else to eat during nine months of the 
twelve. 
‘In one small lake (Lake St. Ann’s), near Fort 
Edmonton, forty thousand white-fish were taken, 
of an average weight of three to four pounds, in 
the course of three weeks.’ (Palliser’s zp.) 
Two modes are adopted for preserving them— 
one that of sun-drying, the other by freezing, in 
which state they may be kept perfectly sweet 
and free from taint for the whole winter. 
The Round-fish is seldom taken over two 
pounds in weight, and prior to spawning they 
are loaded with fat, which on the shoulders almost 
amounts toa hump, ‘but becomes thin, watery, 
and insipid, after the all-important duty of pro- 
viding for their offspring is accomplished. I am 
not quite sure when they return to the sea, as 
nothing is seen of them after the ice sets in, 
towards the end of November, until their arrival 
on the following year. The ova are deposited in 
much the same way as that of other Salmonide: 
