242 SALMON FISHING IN CANADA. 



coDSume his time in running from river to river, but to 

 manage to arrive early at some stream where he knows 

 there are salmon, to make his camp there, explore it in 

 every direction, meet the fish on their first arrival, when 

 they are in best humour to take, and in best condition, 

 and not to leave them till they have left him. The season 

 is short in Canada, from 10th of June to the 10th of 

 August, and every day between these dates spent in sailing 

 is a day lost, for it is a day in which, at any of the salmon 

 rivers, a man would in all probability have killed several 

 fish. During the season 1849, in consequence of the 

 sailing propensities of some of our party, we killed but 

 fifty-seven salmon, though five of us were fishing and 

 sailing from the 14th of June to the 1st of August. It 

 is right, having made this confession, that I should add in 

 extenuation that we were deficient, sadly deficient, in 

 small boats, having only one for us all ; without an ample 

 supply of which men will find it more pleasant and pro- 

 fitable to remain at Quebec and fish for tommy- cods than 

 to go down the gulf to fish for salmon. 



But to return to the Pentecost. After we had refreshed 

 and comforted ourselves by washing and shaving, and 



sponging and changing our clothes, the Baron, H , and 



I set out to explore the river, whilst the Major and the 

 Captain proceeded to search along the sea-shore for lobsters, 

 guided by an intelligent Indian, who with his family was 

 encamped on the point of sand which forms the southern 



