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one when with a last expiring effort it turned over 

 and every hook broke. Thus I lost about as fine a 

 fish as I ever struck. After this everybody began to 

 fish. 0. was in the same boat with me, using my 

 tackle, but I got all the luck. About 10 A.M. it began 

 to rain. B. was leading, and as our boat was approach- 

 ing a rapid, we saw him coming towards us, fast to a 

 large fish, and with the whole of his line out, so he 

 had perforce to follow it down stream ; as he passed 

 I hooked a large fish, and had also to follow mine. 

 I got a thirty-two pounder, but B. lost his. I had 

 no sooner thrown out the spoon again, than I struck 

 another fish, and landed one of twenty-two pounds. 

 About eleven we arrived at a hut which had been 

 built for us. It was near the weir where last trip I 

 caught my heaviest fish. Col. H. had nine fish 

 weighing, forty-three pounds, the largest thirteen 

 pounds ; B., six fish, weighing twenty-seven pounds, 

 the largest weighing eleven pounds ; 0. had one, a 

 six pounder ; I had five weighing sixty-six pounds, 

 the largest being thirty-two pounds. In the evening 

 we went up the stream through the gorge, and the 

 result was, H. caught one, six pounds, two, four pounds 

 each. I caught five nine, five, two, one-and-a-half, 

 and threequarter pounds respectively, all on the 

 same spoon which I ,had been using all day. B. 

 caught two, ten and four pounds ; 0. seven fish, 

 weighing forty-seven pounds, largest twenty-six 

 pounds. Our bag to day was 255 pounds of 

 fish. 



September 17. I went back towards the sand- 

 bank below the weir and I caught seven fish forty- 

 one, twelve, nine-and-a-half, four, four, three, four 



