long, and about an inch in diameter. We were told that these 
fish are*caught in great quantities and dried for food; they 
are also used for candles or torches; for, being very full 
of oil, they burn brightly.” He says of the Willamette “at 
the time of our visit to the falls the salmon-fishery was 
at its height, and was to us a novel as well as an amusing 
scene. The salmon leap the fall; and it would be inconceiv- 
able, if not actually witnessed, how they can force them- 
selves up, and after a leap of from ten to twelve feet retain 
strength enough to stem the force of the water above. About 
one in ten of those who jumped, would succeed in getting by. 
They are seen to dart out of the foam beneath and reach about 
two-thirds of the height, at a single bound: those that thus 
passediithe apex! ofthe running water, succeed; but all that 
fell et coibee thrown back again into the foam. I never 
saw so many fish collected together before; and the Indians 
are constantly employed in taking them. They rig out two 
stout poles, long enough to project over the foaming cauldron, 
and secure their larger ends to the rocks. On the outer end 
they make a platform for the fishermen to stand on, who is 
perched on it with a pole thirty feet long in hand, to which 
the net is fastened by a hoop four feet in diameter: the net 
is made to slide on the hoop, so as to close its mouth when 
the fish is taken. The mode of using the net is peculiar: 
they throw it into the foam as far up the stream as they 
can reach, and it being then quickly carried down, the fish 
who are running up in a contrary direction, are caught. 
sometimes twenty large fish are taken by a single person in 
