106 CAPTAIN CARTWRIGHT'S 



people liad taken possession of the river, and 

 the dispute could not be settled for some 

 time, I thought it best to send my people to the 

 Colleroon. 



Tliursday, June 18, 1772. In the morning sev- 

 eral Indians came up in one of their shallops, and 

 brought me a pair of live young eagles,^ a few 

 ducks, and some eggs. I had a little whale-bone 

 and a few skins from them.' They remained all 

 night with me, and it was with no little difficulty 

 I could restrain them from killing Noble and Pin- 

 son's people, for disturbing me in my fishery. At 

 noon I took the chief with me in the flat up the 

 stream a fishing, and killed three salmon and a 

 brace of trout with fly. He was greatly surprised 

 to see me kill so large fish with such fine tackle, 

 and shewed me their method of fly-fishing for 

 salmon, but he did not raise one. He had the skin 

 of the leg of a sea-pigeon,^ which is scarlet, fast- 

 ened on the shank of a cod-hook, tied to a cod-line. 

 This he threw by hand down the stream, and 

 played it in the same manner as we do a fly. I 

 make no doubt but they kill some salmon in this 

 way, or he would not have been provided with 

 such tackle; for an Indian never will use those 

 things which Avill not answer the end intended, 

 but I do not think theirs a good way, for it is too 

 awkward. 



' Northern bald eagle, Haliaeehis leiicocephalus alascanus; possibly the 

 golden eagle, Aquila Chrysa'etos, although this species is very rare on the 

 Eastern Coast. 



* " Sea-pigeon " or " pigeon," black guillemot, Cepphus gryUe. 



