aon LABRADOR 
that when the waters subside with the advance of summer, 
the odour of rotting fish on the banks and in the branches of 
trees is said to be positively poisonous. On Kadiak Island 
in the North Pacific they are so abundant in certain rivers 
that the fish “interfere with the progress of canoes.” The 
variety found in Cook’s Inlet averages four feet in length, 
and weighs fifty pounds. The natives here kill in their 
primitive way some twenty-five thousand fish per year, 
which provides for each person the moderate allowance of 
four hundred and thirty pounds, or about four pounds a 
day the year round. 
Once hatched out, the little salmon, or parr, is handi- 
capped for three weeks by the large umbilical sac on which 
he subsists. He is fain, therefore, to hide away closely 
among the stones, for many creatures are fond of him. 
Insect larve, beetles, crustaceans, large fish, rats, and even 
diving birds, are all anxious to take him in. If he survives, 
he remains in the river for one or two full years. During 
this time he has grown to a sizable fish of a couple of pounds’ 
weight, but his full glory does not appear until, in his third 
spring, he assumes his glittering silver armour. He is then 
known as a “smolt,” and attains the dignity of venturing 
into the unknown immensity of the ocean, with his fellows 
of his own age, as they go forth in the wake of the great 
salmon. 
In the river the samlet, or parr, is not troubled with the 
scruple of his parents, and feeds voraciously. But it is 
not until he reaches the great sea that he begins to grow 
at all rapidly. It has been said that he will grow from a 
few ounces to as many pounds in three months. He may 
return to winter a second time in the pools and lakes, a full- 
