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putrid state the natives frequently gather them up and eat them, apparently with 

 the same relish as if they were fresh. 



" October 21. We have now in our store twenty-five thousand salmon. Four 

 in a day are allowed to each man. I have sent some of our people to take white 

 fish (Attihawmeg) . 



" November 16. Our fishermen have returned to the fort, and inform me that 

 they have taken seven thousand white fish. They weigh from three to four pounds., 

 and were taken in nine nets of sixty fathoms each. 17. The lake froze over in 

 the night. 



" 1812. January 30. I have returned from visiting five villages of the Nateo- 

 tains, built on a lake of that name, which gives origin to a river that falls into 

 Gardner's Inlet. They contain about two thousand inhabitants, who subsist prin- 

 cipally on salmon and other small fish, and are all well made and robust. The 

 salmon of Lake Nateotain have small scales, while those of Stuart's Lake have 

 none. 



" May 23. Stuart's Lake. This morning the natives caught a sturgeon that 

 would weigh about two hundred and fifty pounds. We frequently see much larger 

 ones, which we cannot take for want of nets sufficiently strong to hold them. 



" August 15. Salmon begin to come up the river. Few salmon came up 

 Stuart's River this fall, but we procured a sufficient quantity at Frazer's Lake and 

 Stillas. These lakes discharge their waters into Frazer's River, which is about 

 fifty rods wide, and has a pretty strong current. The natives pass the greater part 

 of the summer on a chain of small lakes, where they procure excellent white fish, 

 trout, and carp ; but towards the latter part of August they return to the banks of 

 the river, in order to take and dry salmon for their subsistence during the succeed- 

 ing winter. 



" 1813. August 12. Salmon have arrived. 



" 1814. August 5. Salmon begin to come up the river. They are generally 

 taken in considerable numbers until the latter part of September. For a month 

 they come up in multitudes, and we can take any number we please. 



" September 20. We have had but few salmon this year. It is only every 

 second season that they are numerous, the reason of which I am unable to assign. 



" 1815. August 13. Frazer's Lake. Salmon begin to come up the river, 

 which lights up joy in the countenances both of ourselves and of the natives, for 

 we had all become nearly destitute of provisions of any kind. 



" 1816. September 9. Salmon begin to come up this river. 



" 1817. August 6. Stuart's Lake. Salmon arrived. In the month of June 



