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bank he came headed for the water he had 
just left. I caught him as he came, but 
through my fingers he went as though he had 
been buttered; another grab with both hands 
and itseemed as though I had him foul, but 
away he went, struggling for dear life, and 
the freedom of his native brook. Down, down 
he went, tumbling straight for the water which 
he seemed in a fair way of reaching, when the 
only resource of mine appeared to be to throw 
myself bodily upon him, which I did, and we 
both lay panting after the contest. Move, I 
dare not yet, for fear he would bound for the 
water, not far off. Thus I lay until I located 
the beauty, when, rolling towards the water, I 
made adam of my body, and with the energy of 
desperation seized the victim, who was about 
to renew the struggle, and rising, thtew him 
to safe quarters, high above me. 
From each side of the log, before mentioned, 
I drew pound after pound of the toothsome 
fish in quick succession, until a lull came, as if 
the disappearance of so many was being dis- 
cussed by those who remained in the waters 
below. The stream to the right and left of 
my battle ground was still alive with trout 
chasing the numerous flies on the surface of 
the water; but now in this narrow space in 
front it seemed as though the fisher and his 
device were cast off forever. There were 
miles of the brook still unfished by me, but 
nearly a half hundred of the big-fellows were 
in my bag, and I wound up the line, waiting 
the day of further triumph. 
Joun C. CRANE. 
DorcuestTER, N. B., June 29, 1895. 

The Indian Origin of Fish Names. 
Mr. W. R. Gerard, in an elaborate and in- 
structive article just published in The Sun 
(N. Y.), on “Adopted Indian Words,” devotes 
considerable space to the origin of fish names 
from the same source. We quote with editorial 
notes: 
“Tt is perhaps not generally known that 
within the limits of the United States alone 
there are represented fifty-eight distinct stocks 
or families of Indian languages, which are as 
different from each other as they are from the 
Aryan or Semitic. The various districts of 
these families have supplied us, not only witha 
very large number of geographical terms, but 
with the names of many animals and plants in- 
digenous to the country, of peculiar prepara- 
tions of food, of articles known to and used by 
the aborigines, and which were strange to the 
Europeans, as well as the names applied by 
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the natives to themselves in their various po- 
litical and social relations. Confining myself 
strictly to words of North American Indian 
origin, I shall give a list of such of these as 
have come under my observation, and divide 
them into three classes—animal names, plant 
names, and miscellaneous.” 
NAMES OF FISHES [SELECTED]. 
Chebog, a name for the fish called the moss- 
bunker, or menhaden; from one of the Algon- 
quian dialects of the Eastern States. [The 
name “chebog” is new to fish nomenclature. 
The names of “porgy” and “menhaden”’ are 
said to be derived from the Indians; the first 
from the Abnaki name of “ pookagan” or “ pog- 
haden,”’ which means “ fertilizer,” and the latter 
from the Narragansett dialect modified, and sig- 
nifying “that which enriches the earth.”—ED. ] 
Chogset, an eastern Algonquian name for the 
blue perch or burgall. The word apparently 
means “that which is flabby,” referring to the 
soggy flesh of the fish. [This fish is sometimes 
called “cachogset,’ which is also of Indian 
origin.—ED.] 
Longe, a name of the Mackinaw trout, from 
Nipissing (Algonq.) “kinonge,” “long snout.” 
The name properly belongs to the pike. [The 
name “longe” or “lunge” is of Canadian (In- 
dian) origin, and is applied indiscriminately, in 
different sections, to the lake trout of Canada 
and upper New England, and to the masca- 
longe or maskinonge of Canadian statutes. 
In Canadian patois it is masque allonge-—* long 
nose.’ —ED.| 
Malashagany, a name of the sheepshead of 
Lake Huron, the “bass” of the English of 
Canada, and the “ gros bossu”’ (from its rounded 
back) of the French of the same country. The 
name is, through Canadian French, ‘‘ malache- 
gané,” from Nipissing “manashigan,” “the ill-. 
formed bass.” 
Menhaden, a corruption of the Narragansett 
name of the mossbunker—“ munnawhat,” “that 
which fertilizes,” plural “munnawhatteaug.” 
The fish was used by the Indians of the At- 
lantic coast for fertilizing their cornfields. 
Mummachog, a name of the barred killifish, 
a corruption of the plural form of the Narra- 
gansett name of the fish, ‘“‘ Moamitteaug,” im- 
plying a “fish that is marked with black.” 
[This name is usually ‘spelled “mummichog”’ 
by ichthyologists; the name of “brook fish” 
or “killifish”’ is a legacy from the early Dutch 
colonies, as stated by Prof. G. Brown Goode 
in “ Fishing Industries of the U. S.”—ED.] 
Muskallunge, muskallonge, maskallonge, 
