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sometimes abandon two or three times during the summer for convenience 
in fishing, ete. Immediately on the coast this is scarcely done at all, be- 
cause not necessary; but the Wailakki generally go higher up the little 
streams in the heated term, roaming and camping along where the salmon 
trout (Salmo Masoni) and the Coast Range trout (Salmo iridea) most abound. 
They capture those and other minnows in a rather ignominious and un- 
Waltonian fashion. When the summer heat dries up the streams to stag- 
nant pools they rub the poisonous soap-root in the water until the fish are 
stupefied, when they easily scoop them up, and the poison will not affect 
the tough stomach of the aborigines. 
In Ketten Chow Valley they used to gather immense quantities of 
cammas (Cammasia esculenta). ‘Then there is a kind of wild potato grow- 
ing on high and dry places (I saw no specimens of it) which they use to a 
considerable extent, in addition to roots eaten by all California Indians. 
In the Wintiin language, “Hetten Chow” denotes “‘cammas valley,” and 
“Tetten Pum” means “‘cammas earth”. 
The Wailakki have also a very unsportsmanlike method of capturing 
deer. They run them down afoot. This is not so difficult a matter as one 
might imagine in the case of a very fat buck. Deer have a habit of run- 
ning pretty much in certain established trails, and the Indians make these 
trails a study, post relays of men at points where the animal is pretty cer- 
tain to pass, and so give him continuous chase until he is out of his range, 
and thereby frequently get him so blown that he either stands at bay or 
takes to the water. An old hunter tells me he has frequently seen them 
capture a fine buck in this manner. Then, again, they construct two slight 
lines of brushwood fence, converging to a point, where a snare is set, and 
they chase the animal into this snare. Beside deer, they also run down 
hare and rabbits, and this is still more easily done. A company of Indians 
get together in a space of meadow or in an open wood, and whoop and 
beat the cover to flush the quarry. Puss is terrified by the multitude of 
voices, and runs wild, springs in the air, doubles, tacks, flings somersaults, 
ducks, leaps square off from a straight run even when .nothing moves or 
makes a noise near it, and so beats itself completely out, or slips into its 
burrow. ‘This is great sport for the Indians. They whoop, laugh, scurry 
