395: 
Salmon. 
Kepling. 
A-JOURNEY TO THE 
to more benefit for the Company, are fent on 
that duty, and in fome fuccefsful years they fend — : 
home from eight to thirteen tons of fine oil. To 
encourage a fpirit of induitry among thofe em- 
ployed on this fervice, the Company allows a gra. 
tuity, not only to the harpooners, but to every 
man that fails in the boats; and this gratuity is 
fo ample as to infpire them with emulation, as 
they well know that the more they kill, the great- 
er will be their emolument. 
SALMON are in fome feafons very numerous on 
the North Weit fide of Hudfon’s Bay, particular- 
ly at Knapp’s Bay and Whale Cove. At the lat- _ 
ter | once found them fo plentiful, that had we 
been provided with a fufficient number of nets, 
cafks, and falt, we might foon have loaded the 
veflel with them. But this is feldom the cafe, 
for in fome years they are fo fcarce, that it is 
with difficulty a few meals of them can be pro- 
cured during our ftay at thofe harbours. They 
are in fome years fo plentiful near Churchill 
River, that I have known upward of two hun- 
dred fine fifh taken out of four fmall nets in one 
tide within a quarter of a mile of the Fort; but 
in other years they are fo fcarce, that barely that 
number have been taken in upward of twenty 
nets during the whole feafon, which generally 
begins the latter end of June, and ends about 
the middle or latter end of Auguft. 3 
Befide the fifh already mentioned, Iknow of — 
no other that inhabits the falt water except the 
KEPLING, 
