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A FIGHT WITH A MASCALONGE. 
Ellick, a North American Indian, took me in 
charge as I set out to camp on the Canadian- 
French River. Aristocratic blood beat so vitally 
in his veins that the white of his eyes had 
yielded itself to the royal cause, and left behind 
a beady, lusterless expression. He was, I was 
assured, in the direct line of Ojibwa chieftain¬ 
ship, and had not the ban of advanced civiliza¬ 
tion fallen upon him and his tribe and relegated 
them to the prosaic passivity of a Government re¬ 
serve, he might at that moment have been mak¬ 
ing the forest ring with his war whoop and an¬ 
nexing scalps instead of a few dollars. 
It was interesting to try and discover what 
survived of the original qualities of the North 
American Indian. The preliminary survey was 
not encouraging. A pair of heelless boots and 
patched jacket and trousers had little in common 
with the buckskin moccasins and buffalo robes 
garnished with porcupine quills. An old plant¬ 
er's hat was a long remove from the erstwhile 
coiffure of golden eagle feathers. But there was 
reversion to original type despite this sartorial 
vandalism. The Ojibwa temperament was there, 
and showed itself under the least provocation. 
The presumptive chief would sit silent and pen¬ 
sive on a rock like a dethroned Napoleon look¬ 
ing across the waste of a kingdom from which 
he had been exiled. In motion there was a sleuth- 
ness in his tread which pointed to a hereditary ' 
connection with the chase, and when the canoe, 
silently drifting down the rapids, surprised a stag 
slaking its thirst, the Indian’s nostrils would 
quiver like a staghound’s held in leash as the 
quarry dashed into the forest. 
Two centuries ago Champlain, the French 
pioneer, descending the French River, discovered 
a tribe of naked Indians gathering berries on the 
island rocks. They were the Oj.ibwas, to which 
my guide belonged. From boyhood, in common 
with others, he had learnt to shoot its rapids, 
dive in its pools, trap its mink and beaver, spear 
its fish, and had even acquired some skill in the 
more scientific methods of angling. The French 
River has only been open to the general public 
for the last two years. Prior to the construction 
of the Canadian Pacific Railway to Sudbury, it 
was practically unknown. The line crosses the 
river at Pickering Landing, and there is a hotel 
and post office combined close to the spot. The 
river is well stocked with bass, pickerel, pike, 
and the lordly mascalonge. This species is allied 
to the pike in habits, and is similar in appear¬ 
ance, only thinner in proportion to its length. 
Like Esox lucius. it makes the weedy portions 
of the river its chief hunting ground, and with 
its body hidden lies on the outskirts ready to 
pounce on its unwary prey. It surpasses its 
cousin in fighting power, and is known as the 
“tiger of the river.” It is a cautious feeder, and 
for days will decline to notice the cunning lures 
in artificial spoon and natural bait which the 
angler proffers. On other occasions reserve is 
cast to the winds, and it will boldly seize the 
bait, and set the reel screeching and the rod 
trembling with many a mad rush. 
The black bass kept us busy the greater part 
of the day. Game fish they are, and three or 
four-pounders are not uncommon. In the deep 
water, where the bare rocks rise abruptly, they 
are to be found. The cluster of spruce that 
crowns the summit casts a dark patch of shadow 
across the stream, and there, expectant of water 
shrimp and minnow, the bass keeps its vigil. A 
few months earlier in the season it was found 
among the brook trout, and took up its abode in 
the rapids in quest of floating flies that drifted 
down the stream. To these the black bass rose, 
and the angler’s artificial flv was often mistaken 
for the succulent edible. But the spring rise of 
fly is over, and perch and other fry are flashing 
their bright sides on the margin of deeper pools. 
It is there the bass m'stakes the metal imitation 
that revolves on its flanges and radiates its hues 
of electric blue and silver. How eagerly it is 
seized and 'what commotion follows, as the cap¬ 
tive dives and curvets and angrily leaps into 
the air. 
There is a large silver and gilt spoon bait on 
