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found fresh salmon in these lower pools every tide. 

 Besides, it is an excellent place to encamp, quite close to 

 supplies, and affording opportunities for popping into the 

 sea when you pop out of bed in the morning. In 1853 I 

 walked along the banks of this river for about a mile and 

 a half from where it falls into the sea, but did not find 

 any streams likely to arrest the attention of an angler ; 

 what I did see, however, induced me to wish for a canoe, 

 in order to enable me to make further exploration ; for I 

 had heard that there were rapids only a short distance up 

 the stream where the salmon would probably rest, and 

 afford the fisherman an opportunity of exercising his skill 

 in alluring them to his angle. 



My first and only visit to the Pentecost was on Wed- 

 nesday, the 4th of July, 1849. We intended to have 

 anchored in Trinity Bay, and to have tried the river there ; 

 but, a fine breeze having sprung up from the westward, we 

 carried on and ran aground inside of the bar of the 

 Pentecost at 12 o'clock. The tide was ebbing, and in a 

 very short time our yacht was on her beam ends, by no 

 means a pleasant position for the inhabitants of a ship, 

 whether on land or on water. We had previously fished 

 the Groodbout, and left that river in consequence of the dis- 

 contented temper of the captain, who, never satisfied, would 

 sail at the very time the best sport was commencing. The 

 little success we met with on this occasion lias been a 

 warning to every man of that party not for the future to 



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