178 Method of taking Salmon. 



tween them, over which, with the assistance of 

 a hand-rope fixed at a proper height on the 

 shore also, and reaching to the rock, the natives 

 pass and repass without any apparent trepida- 

 tion, although the height from the sea, and the 

 tremulous motion of the bridge, make passing 

 over it a most terrific attempt. At the moment 

 I first caught a view of it, I had the extreme 

 pain of seeing a man cross it with a child in his 

 arms. Our guide, however, for his amusement, 

 passed over it to the island; on which the fisher- 

 men have raised a hut, for their retreat and 

 shelter in very bad weather. Use disarms this 

 dangerous passage of all its terrors in the minds 

 of those employed, who appeared to be insensi- 

 ble of the hazard they incurred. 



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The mode of taking salmon here is very cu- 

 rious. On the extreme brink of the rock, im- 

 pending over the sea, scouts are seated, whose 

 duty it is to watch the fish approaching along 

 the shore : these are readily discerned, as the 

 water is but about three fathoms in depth, and 

 so pellucid that in bright weather they are per^ 

 ceptible at some distance, though they do not 

 come near the surface. As soon as they are 

 discovered, the scouts give notice to those sta- 

 tioned below in a boat, who have their nets 

 ready to cast. The fish, in search for fresh water, 

 keep close along the shore, on which, whea 



