100 JOHN JAMES ATJDUBON 

 ox, about an acre of potatoes planted in 

 sand, seven feet of snow in winter, and 

 two-thirds less salmon than was caught 

 here ten years since. Then, three hun- 

 dred barrels was a fair season ; now one 

 hundred is the maximum ; this is be- 

 cause they will catch the fish both as- 

 cending and descending the river. Dur- 

 ing winter the men hunt Foxes, Martens, 

 and Sables, and kill some bear of the 

 black kind, but neither Deer nor other 

 game is to be found without going a 

 great distance in the interior, where 

 Eeindeer are now and then procured. 

 One species of Grouse, and one of Ptar- 

 migan, the latter white at all seasons ; 

 the former, I suppose to be, the Willow 

 Grouse. The men would neither sell 

 nor give us a single salmon, saying, 

 that so strict were their orders that, 

 should they sell one, the place might be 

 taken from them. If this should prove 

 the case everywhere, I shall not pur- 

 chase many for my friends. The furs 



