The Salmon of the Pacific Slope. 



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is an accurate reproduction of an instantaneous photograph of this 

 record leap at one of the falls of the White Bear river in Labrador, 

 as photographed by him in the month of August, 1897. The 

 other illustration shows the almost horizontal " sailing home " pose, 

 illustrating the wonderful elasticity and muscular force possessed 

 by the salmon at that season of the year. 



SALMON "SAILING HOME" IN LEAPING AN iSpr. HIGH FALL ON 

 WHITE BEAR RIVER, LABRADOR. 



(Photographed by Dr. R, 7. Morris, of Hew fort.) 



Once over the Kettle Falls, no traps or wiles obstructed their 

 path, though the natural difficulties for the remaining six hundred 

 miles are all the greater. Past the now abandoned, but once 

 important, old Hudson Bay Company's post, Fort Sheppard, 

 over innumerable rapids, through the Arrowlakes, as lake-like 



