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SbeV § etlier the feams of their canoes; they likewife make nets 
-v-w of them for 'the larger kind of fhh; and with the tinder 
jaw-bones their fledges are fhod. They likewife work the 
bones into knives; and formerly the chains with which 
their dogs are tied, were made of that material, thongh at 
prefent iron ones are generally tifed. The inteflines they 
dean, then blow and dry like bladders, and it is in thefe 
their oil and greale is ftored; and of the nerves and veins, 
which are both ffcrong, and flip readily, they make excel¬ 
lent fnares; fo that there is no part of the whale which here 
does not find its nfe. 
From the middle of May, till our departure on the 24th 
of June, we caught great quantities of excellent flat fifh, 
trout, and herrings. Upward of three hundred of the for¬ 
mer, befides a number of lea-trout, were dragged out at 
one haul of the feine, the 15th of May. Thefe flat fifh 
are firm, and of a good flavour, ftudded upon the back 
with round prickly knobs, like turbot, and flreaked with 
dark brown lines, running from the head toward the tail. 
About the end of May the firft herring feafon begins. 
They approach in great fhoals, but do not remain long on 
the coaft. They had entirely left the bay before we failed 
out of it the firft time, but were beginning to revifit it 
again in October. It has been already mentioned, that 
the herrings were remarkably fine and large, and that we 
filled a great part of our empty calks with them. The be¬ 
ginning of June, large quantities of excellent cod were 
taken ; a part of which were likewife falted. We caught 
too, at different times, numbers of fmall fifh, much re- 
fembling a fmelt, and once drew out a wolf-fifh. 
Notwithftanding this abundance of flat-fifh, cod, and 
herring, it is on the falmon fifhery alone that the Kamt- 
fchadales 
