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rising one over the other in a compact mass. The 

 krasjiaia, whose shining- violet backs we could easily 

 distinguish, owing to the clearness of the water, kept 

 pushing each other on, forming a regular up-stream 

 wave, which broke through the opening in the spikes 



REMOVING FISH FROM TRAP AT KLUCHI. 



ready to receive them. Over fifteen hundred fish had 

 been already caught that day, and thousands more were 

 ascending the torrent, filling the trap every few minutes, 

 and o-ivino- work to the men. who had hardly time to 

 o-aff them. At least five hundred salmon were thrown 

 out before us in this manner. Other natives, who 



