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is to be virtually outlawed so far as business is 

 concerned. Nevertheless, he may pay in counterfeit 

 coin if you are so trustful as to accept it; that's 

 your own lookout. 



His illusions are quite different from ours. He is 

 mortally afraid of the Feng-shui or evil earth spirit, 

 who may be disturbed by an excavation; for much 

 better reasons he fears the secret attacks of a rival 

 tong. Of American methods of incantation, however, 

 Uncle he has his opinion. When the Lighthouse Board 

 Sam's wished to install a foghorn near Monterey, and the 

 /ion agent found that the necessary location belonged to 

 a Chinese, he carefully explained why Uncle Sam 

 must have the land. The owner replied: "Uncle 

 Sam dam fool. I come over from Oakland to San 

 Francisco big steam whistle on Goat Island blow 

 hard dam fog come in allee same." But once 

 when I found a man placing red paper trinkets in a 

 little Chinese graveyard and asked him what he 

 was doing, he turned and pointing upward said: 

 "He all same Joss who." 



After a fairly thorough investigation of the marine 



interests of San Francisco and neighboring waters, 



we went in May directly to Astoria, the great 



salmon center of our coast at the mouth of the 



Columbia, though we then remained only long 



enough to make a general survey of the situation, as 



we planned to return later for intensive study of 



Chinook the King or Chinook salmon during its main run in 



salmon enormous numbers in late June. This is the only 



one of the five species which has economic im- 



portance in the Columbia or Sacramento. Proceed- 



ing now northward to Puget Sound, we investigated 



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