Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-06

along, trading with the Indians who come
down from the far North with fur. AT
these posts you see the rarest furs-fox
skins that bring fabulous prices. All are
sent to London, some bringing 500 and
$500 apiece. At many points where there
are no posts you can get the rarest furs
from the Esquimau tribe. Last winter
was very bad one fer trapping, the snow
being very deep all the season,
The steamer touched all along the coast,
going as far as the Natashquan, immortal
lied in print by Billy Florence, who, with
his companions, the Duke of Beaufort, Sir
John Reid and others, killed any quantity
of salmon there some years since. A few
of these rivers yield the largest salmon.
At the Moisic we took on board fish weigh
ing so pounds on our return trip, and
picked up, before we got back, some 5000
salmon.
Inside of US, between Us and the shore,
we saw a thrasher, about thirty or forty
feet long, playing, leaping into the air and
throwing himself down fiat, as it were, as
if to crush by his weight some object.
This is the way they destroy the whale
falling on him. The one we saw threw
himself down in this manner dozen
times. 1t is said the sword-fsh accom-
panies them, and when they fall on top
the sword-fsh stabs him from below.
Among the celebrated rivers is the
Goodbout We saw the guardian of it,
Mr.. Comeau, who killed fifty eight salmon
in one day, and $50 in eighteen running
DAYS, and that after the best of the season
had passed For sport all you have to do
is to take at Quebec, or st. Johns, boat
and two Indians, permit and your sup
per, and you can stop and fish. There is
hardly point where you can't get snow
or ice to pack your fish, and the steamer
passes by every fortnight, or you can have
your yacht and go or come as you like.
There are safe harbors every few miles, as
the coast is lined by islands.
Here you will find a river full of win
nonish, or what are called landlocked sal
mon, as we'll as the Atlantic salmon, both
open to go to the sea if they like. This
disposes of the idea that the landlocked
salmon of Maine and other inland lakes
attain no size because they are cut off from
the sea. These fish on these rivers, where
they can 60 to the ocean, are no larger
than on the lakes where they cannot go.
The traveller who is fond of scenery will
find this entire coast grand and pictur-
esque. You see rivers pitching down over
the hills covered with snow, sheets of
foam, backed up by the mountains that
line the shore. Trout-fshing such as
would astonish one from the States, can be
had all along the coast Fish run from
two to FIVE pounds, and occasionally seven
to eight pounds. A little back in the
lakes you get a fish much larger, running
from ten to twenty and thirty pounds,
called by different names there, known in
the States as Takers, or lake trout.
For the man with his gun this is the
paradise for hunting. Wild beasts of all
kinds abound. Bear and reindeer can be
had as well as smaller animals. In truth,
you could not set your foot at random on
any part of this coast without finding food
for your fly and gun.
Mr.. Habershan laid especial stress upon
the fact that the Labrador coast is so easily
accessible, whereas Savannahians and
Southerners generally suppose it to be about
as difficult to reach as the North Pole. A lit
tie study of the map will show the fallacy
of this idea. One can leave Savannah on
the steamer for Boston, and within thirty
six hours after landing at that place be in
the heart of the salmon country, amid the
summer snow and ice.
Mr. Habersham said that the report that
he had been appointed Commissioner by
the Canadian Government to settle
boundary dispute in connection with the
salmon fisheries was unfounded. He had
simply been rendered complimentary
permi: by the Government, which he had
accepted.