100 JOHN JAMES AUDUBON. 
ox, about an acre of potatoes planted in 
sand, seven feet of snow in winter, and 
two-thirds less salmon than was caught 
here ten years since. Then, three hun- 
dred barrels was a fair season ; now one 
hundred is the maximum; this is be- 
cause they will catch the fish both as- 
cending and descending theriver. Dur- 
ing winter the men hunt Foxes, Martens, 
and Sables, and kill some bear of the 
black kind, but neither Deer nor other 
game is to be found without going a 
great distance in the interior, where 
Reindeer are now and then procured. 
One species of Grouse, and one of Ptar- 
migan, the latter white at all seasons; 
the former, I suppose to be, the Willow 
Grouse. The men would neither sell 
nor give us a single salmon, saying, 
that so strict were their orders that, 
should they sell one, the place might be 
taken from them. If this should prove 
the case everywhere, I shall not pur- 
chase many for my friends. The furs 
