96 THE SALMON FISHER. 



serves on the Lower St. Lawrence, going and com- 

 ing each year in his private steam yacht, whose lux- 

 urious appointments royalty might envy, and accom- 

 panied always by invited guests of approved status 

 as anglers and high social position, sometimes by 

 noblemen and bishops, and once by Earl Dufferin, 

 the Governor General of the Dominion, whom he has 

 entertained for weeks together with luxuries brought 

 to his distant fishing camp, 300 miles below Quebec, 

 on his steam tender. The lavish expenditure laid 

 out upon his extensive domain in bridging ravines, 

 protecting dangerous cliffs, providing easy ap- 

 proaches to the salmon pools, and placing batteaux 

 and boats at every eligible point ; in erecting build- 

 ings for all conceivable requirements, providing re- 

 freshment places along the tumbling stream, and 

 leading the fountains gently from their ice-cold cliffs 

 to the wayside ; all these, and more, have excited 

 the admiration and astonishment of men who have 

 seen him. His tackle is of the most approved and ex- 

 pensive kind, and his skill as a salmon angler per- 

 haps unsurpassed on either continent. A consider- 

 able hamlet of habitans and half-breed Indians has 



