ACCOUNT OF THE INDIANS. 



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ters, by falling back among the stones, when 

 coming up difficult places in the rapids which 

 thej pass. 



The Carriers take salmon in the following 

 manner. All the Indians of the village assist in 

 making a dam across the river, in which they oc- 

 casionally leave places, to insert their baskets or 

 nets of wicker work. These baskets are gene- 

 rally from fifteen to eighteen feet in length, and 

 from twelve to fifteen feet in circumference. The 

 end at which the salmon enter, is made with 

 twigs, in the form of the entrance of a wire mouse 

 trap. When four or five hundred salmon have 

 entered this basket, they either take it to the 

 shore to empty out the fish; or they take them 

 out at a door in the top, and transport them to 

 the shore in their large wooden canoes, which are 

 convenient for this purpose. When the salmon 

 are thrown upon the beach, the women take out 

 their entrails, and hang them by their tails on 

 poles, in the open air. After remaining in this 

 situation for a day or two, they take them down 

 and cut them thinner, and then leave them to 

 hang for about a month in the open air, when 

 they will have become entirely dry. They are 

 then put into their store houses, which are built 

 on four posts, about ten feet from the ground, 

 to prevent animals from destroying them ; and 



