170 SALMON FISHING IN CANADA. 



to my own knowledge a petition from them was presented 

 in 1849, to the Parliament assembled in Montreal, by J. 

 C. Tache, Esq., M.P.P., the member for Eimouski. This 

 petition was written or scored with a style on a piece of 

 birch bark about two feet square, and addressed in 

 the Montagnais idiom to <Les grands Bourgeois du 

 Grouvernment.' There was, attached to the petition, a 

 translation of it in French, in which they excused them- 

 selves for having made use of ( Le papier des sauvages.' 

 In their writing they make use of the form of printing 

 types, as shown in the following Christian names, 



Piel . . . Pierre. 



Planchois . . . Francois. 



Grlegloile . . . Gregoire. 



They have no E nor no F in their idiom, the L takes the 

 place of K and P of the F." 



"Well now, Bishop," said the Baron, "that's enough 

 about your dirty Indians, what does the Yankee say about 

 salmon fishing in the tributaries of the Saguenay ? " 



" Why," replied the Priest, " his accuracy in the above 

 instance is but a poor guarantee for his veracity on that 

 subject, but hear and judge for yourself. 'The lithe, 

 wild and beautiful salmon,' says he, e pays an annual visit 

 to all the tributaries of the St. Lawrence, lying between 

 Quebec and Bic Island. ' ' 



" Aye, and to all the tributaries far below Bic Island 

 too," interrupted the Captain. 



