Kae Ma SEC’ Be AT Re A: 
when ftruck with it, are infected with fuch agonies that they cannot bear the fea, 
but rufh on fhore, and expire with dreadful groans and bellowing. 
The Ka/atka or Grampus, Br. Zool. iii. N° 26, is very common in thefe feas : 
they are dreaded by the natives, who even make offerings to them, and entreat 
their mercy, leaft they fhould overfet their boats ; yet, if thefe fifh are thrown on 
fhore, they apply them to the fame ufes as the Whale *. 
The Motkoia or Akoul, or White Shark, Br. Zool. iii. N° 42, is among the 
ufeful fifth. They eat the flefh, and form of the inteftines and bladder, bags to 
hold their oil. Inthe chafe of this fifh they never call it by its name, for fear 
of provoking it to burft its bladder +. 
Lampries, Br. Zool. iii. N° 27; Eels, — 57; Wolf-fifh, — 65 ; common Cod- 
fifh ? —73; Hadock, — 74; and Hake, — 81, are found in the Kamt/chatkan 
fea: and I alfo fufpe&, that the three-bearded Cod, — N° 87, is alfo met with: 
it is called there Morfkie Nalimit. An elegant fpecies of Flounder, of excellent 
flavor, was taken here in abundance by our navigators: the back was ftudded 
with prickly tubercles, and marked longitudinally with lines of black on a 
brown ground. The Ferchei, poffibly our Ruffe, — N° 127, is among the fith 
of the country ; as is a fpecies of the Englifh Sticklebacks. 
But the fith of the firft importance to the Kamt/chatkans, and on which they de- 
pend for fubfiftence, are the anadromous kinds, or thofe which at ftated feafons afcend 
the rivers and lakes out of the fea. Thefe are entirely of the Salmon genus, with 
exception to the common Herring, which in autumn quits the falt water. It 
is fayed, that every {pecies of Salmon is found here. I may with certainty adjoin, 
that feveral of the Szbirian {pecies, with variety peculiar to this country, afcend 
the Kamt/chatkan rivers in multitudes incredible. The inhabitants dignify fome 
of their months by the names of the fifth. One is called Kouiche, or the month 
of Red Fifhes; another, Ajaba, or that of Little White Fish; a third, Kazko, or of 
the fifh Kako; and a fourth, Kijou, or the month of the Great White Fifb§. It is 
obfervable, that each fhoal keeps apart from others of different fpecies, and fre- 
quently prefers a feparate river, notwithftanding the mouths may be almoft con- 
tiguous. They often come up in fuch numbers as to force the water before them, 
and even to dam up the rivers, and make them overflow their banks ; infomuch 
that, on the fall of the water, fuch multitudes are left on dry ground, as to 
make a ftench capable of caufing a peftilence, was it not fortunately difperfed 
by the violence of the winds ; befides, the bears and dogs affift, by preying on 
them, to leffen the ill effects. — 
® Defer, Kamtfch 462. + Same, 466. } Br. Zool. itt. 2616 § Hift. Kamtfch. 218. 
Every 
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GRAMPuUs. 
SALMON, 
