206 LABRADOR 
Another rendering from a native source carries the meaning 
of its being a nasty, disagreeable-looking fish, which is cer- 
tainly accurate. The flesh flakes quite like cod, and is 
rather good. Its habitat extends at least as far south as 
the Connecticut Lakes of New Hampshire. 
The list of important fishes includes the ouandniche, or 
‘“Jand-locked salmon,” found rather widely over the south- 
eastern quarter of the country, the red and white suckers, 
and the pike-perch, or wall-eyed pike; the range of the latter 
extends as far as the eastern heads of the Maniquagan, 
where a round lake nine miles across is known as okauinipi, 
“pike perch water.” As kau means rough, the name 
of the fish would seem to come from the perch like rough- 
ness of its scales. 
Last and least of the common southwestern fishes is the 
river-chub, or dace, which in the cold streams is good 
throughout the summer. It should be skinned rather than 
scaled. Its native name is witush “stone-carrier,’’ from 
its well-known habit of piling up pebbles in the shallows. 
The wooden spear is used for all kinds of large fish at 
times, especially for the salmon. To fish with a torch and 
spear is waswdno, hence Waswanipi lake, south of Hud- 
son Bay, and possibly Ashwanipi, the large lake north of 
the Moisie on Hamilton Water. 
According to John Bastian, a young Scotch-Montagnais 
of Pointe Bleue, who was hunting there between Mistinik 
and Kaniapishkau, that region has practically no rabbits 
or beaver, — there being little food for them, — although 
it is a good district for martens. Other subsistence failing, 
John and his companion were thrown wholly upon fish, 
caught with difficulty and boiled without salt, for two or 
