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cured at Karluk one hundred and seventy-five barrels of red salmon in less than four days -with 

 ten natives at work. The natives do everything but salt the fish; this Captain Bowen does 

 himself. Ten men could average fifty barrels a day easily if a vessel could lie there every day, 

 but Karluk is open to the sea. With proper buildings ashore ten thousand barrels might be put 

 up in a season. At Karluk the salmon are thicker on the flood tide, becoming thicker as' the tide 

 rises, but going off at high water. Looking down into the water, it would seem that a lead-pencil 

 could not be passed down between the densely crowded fish ; a bidarka cannot be paddled over 

 them when the salmon are thick. 



Eed salmon are abundant every year at Karluk. There is perhaps no better place in Alaska 

 for the establishment of a great salmon fishery. 



The following are the principal food and bait fishes of Kodiak Parish: 



Pleuronectes stellatus, Pallas. Hexagrammus ordinatus, Cope. 



" quadrituberculatus, Pallas. " superciliosus, (Pall.) Jor. & Gilb. 



Lepidopsetta bilineata, (Ayres) Gilb. " decagrammus, (Pall.) Jor. & Gilb. 



Limanda aspera, (Pall.) Bean. Pleurogrammus monopterygius, (Pall.) <3rill. 



Hippoglossoides elassodon, Jor. & Gilb. Ammodytes personatus, Girard. 



Hippoglossus vulgaris, Flem. Mallotus villosus, (Miiller) Guv. 



Atheresthes stomias, Jor. & Gilb. Thaleichthys pacificus, (Rich.) Girard. 

 PoUachius chalcogrammus, (Pall.) Jor. & Gilb. Salvelinus malma, (Walb.) Jor. & Gilb. 



Gadus morrhua, Linn. Salmo purpuratus, Pallas. 

 Tilesia gracilis, (Tiles.) Swainson. " Gairdnerii, Rich. 



Cottus polyacanthocephalus, Pallas. Oncorhynchus chouicha, (Walb.) Jor, & Gilb. 

 Hemilepidotus trachurus, (Pall.) Giinther. " keta, (Walb.) Gill & Jor. 



" Jordanii, Bean. " nerka, (Walb.) Gill & Jor. 



Sebastichthys melanops, (Grd.) Jor. & Gilb. " kisutch, (Walb.) Jor. & Gilb. 



" ciliatus, (Tiles.) " gorbuscha, (Walb.) Gill & Jor. 



Hexagrammus asper, Steller. Clupea mirabilis, Girard. 



The following are the names of fishes given to us on the voyage from Alexandrovsk to Saint 

 Paul, Kodiak, by a native of the island of Kodiak. The species were all shown to him except the 

 krasnoi riba : 



Gadus morrhua Ah-mo-doc. 



Tilesia gracilis , Sah-ke-lakh. 



Muraenoides ornatus , Poo-lakh. 



Ammodytes personatus Ah-zhing ah-ryeerk. 



Hemilepidotus Kah-log. 



Cottus polyacanthocephalus Ki-oo-loong-chooli. 



Gasterosteus cataphractus E-lach-en-akh. 



Mallotus villosus She-gakh. 



Salvelinus malma Ahn-chuck. 



Oncorhynchus gorbuscha Ah-mah-kee-akh. 



keta... Ah-lay-makh. 



nerka Nee-klee-uk. 



Names of other objects : 



Littorina : E-book. 



Diomedea brachyura Kay-may-ryeerk. 



Explanation.— A is sounded as in father, except in the second syllable of Ah-lay-makh, 

 and in the first two syllables of Kay-may-ryeerk. The names express as nearly as possible the 

 sounds used by the native in conveying his identification of the objects to me. 



