8 INTRODUCTION 



General, the Lieut. -Governor, the Royal Humane 

 Society, the Government of the Dominion, and 

 the Societe des Chevaliers Sauveteurs des Alpes 

 Maritime of Nice, vied with each other in show- 

 ering honors upon them. 



To the cause of science the author of this book 

 has rendered signal service. His text-book has 

 been that of Nature. Other works of which his 

 library at Godbout contains a useful selection 

 and occasional visits to museums, have aided him 

 in his studies of comparative anatomy. In ori- 

 ginal research he has done much good work for 

 which he has received the thanks of officials of 

 the Smithsonian Institution and members of vari- 

 ous learned societies. His list of the birds of the 

 North Shore, published at the end of the present 

 volume, is a scientific work of permanent value. 



The chapters devoted to the natural history of 

 the North Shore, and especially to trapping and 

 salmon fishing, are the work of an expert, and 

 there is scarcely an angler anywhere who will not 

 be interested in Mr. Comeau's description of the 

 salmon rivers of the North Shore, and of the 

 various salmon problems which he discusses out 

 of the fulness of a life-long experience. What 

 salmon fisherman will not be attracted by the 

 scores faithfully preserved for the last fifty 

 years of the salmon killed by rod and line in 

 the Godbout river, and by the extraordinary kill 

 of 57 salmon in one day, to Mr. Comeau' s own 

 rod, on the 9th July, 1874? 



