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the requirements of a camp in tlie woods, and arc, 

 witlial, very merry, companionable fellows. For a 

 fishing camp anywhere above the Pabineau, a canoe and 

 three men (one to act as cook and camp-kccpcr), arc 

 indispensable ; and on arriving at Btithurst, the services 

 of any of the following men of good character should be 

 secured : The Chamberlains, the Vineaus, David ]juchct» 

 Joe Young, and others; Baldwin, the landlord of the 

 little hotel, knows them all well. Their wages are a 

 dollar a day for the canoe men ; the cook may be hired 

 for half a dollar, but he will grumble, and most likely 

 succeed in getting three shillings. If a voyage through 

 to the St. John, vid the Nictaux and Tobiquc lakes, be 

 contemplated, selection should be made of those men 

 who have taken parties through before. All provisions 

 necessary for a sojourn on the river — everything, from 

 an excellent ham to a tin of the best chocolate — are to 

 be had at the store of INIessrs. Ferguson, Rankin, and Co., 

 ill Bathurst, obliging people, very moderate and liljcral ; 

 they will deduct for all the cooking utensils, supplied 

 by them, which may be returned on coming down the 

 river. 



Notwithstanding the immense destruction of fish in 

 the Ne2)isiguit in every possiWe way— netting and 

 torching in fresh water, whenever the nature of the 

 stream allows of such proceedings, wholesale sweejiing 

 and spearing on their spawning beds by tribes of Indians, 

 even into the month of November, when they are quite 

 black and slimy, extensive netting at its moutli, and 

 the number taken by fly-fishers — even yet the river 

 swarms with salmon ; a favourable condition of the 

 water and the command of a few pools will insure good 



