The morning call., 1894-07-01

greeable odor hangs over it that drives
away people who might pay it visit.
The camp is most beautifully situated
few feet back from the beach at the mouth
Of a small canyon, down which stream
OF cool water tumbleS. 1t is an ideal camp
ing place, with a smooth beach and pro-
terted from the winds.
There is one large tent in which Frazer
sleeps and a sort of awning under which
he does all his work. On all sides are scat
tered pans, kettles and boxes, and piled up
in neat rows are baskets containing pc
culiar smelling substances. All these
things are FraZer's tools, for he not only
catches the strange fish the Cinnamon
want, but he prepares them In the peculiar
and mysterious way they desire.
Back of the tent can be seen piles of
nets, lines and traps and other strange
looking things an ordinary fisher
But Frazer needs them all. He has to
keep large variety of delicacies on hand
or else his customers would be displeased.
In appearance Frazer is an ordinary
looking fisherman with gray beard and
sun-burned face. He wears one of the
large Chinese hats that look like umbrellas
when at work about camp and dresses
like another fisherman when In his boat.
He is not very talkatlVe and will keep at
his work about camp no matter how many
visitors he may have. According to his
own statement he is an Englishman and
began life as sailor. He skipped to Hong
Kong a number of years ago and deserted
his ship. L. was while there that he
learned the strange art of preparing and
drying fish that he now uses to good ad-
vantage.
Frazer goes fishing about once a week,
and if successful spends all the rest of the
time preparing his catch. He has traps on
the bottom of the bay lying in wait for
haf hn inon
day and always keeps baited. He fishes
mostly with a seine and gathers in all
Sorts of things, most Of which he throws
back. Then he has peculiar grapnel
with which he scrapes off the rocks in
eight or ten feet of water. Besides that he
has line composed of a series of loops
and hooks that he uses to catch sort OF
jelly-fish. The fish won't bite. but it be-
comes entangled and caught in several
places at the same time. Frazer also digs
clans and prepares them, they being one
of the cheapest of his deiicacies.
When Frazer gets back from a successful
fishing and digging expedition his boat
rine animals. He has great many Of
some kinds and possibly only one or two
of others. All these he sorts into differ
ent piles. There will be clans. prawns,
shrimps, jelly fish, devil fish, starfish,
crabs and dozen other things that he
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like hideous nightmares.
When they are all sorted his work be-
gins. He first attends to the CLANS,
which he takes from the shells and lays on
the rocks to dry. In a few days. when
they become little tough. he ties them to
strings, much as the Mexlcans do when
making ''jerkie."
Several other fish are treated in the same
way. but there are others that require days
of attention.
When he gets done with the devil-fsh
it is a sort of paste. 1t has been put
through several processes of decomDosi-
ton, during which tine il has been giving
off a most disgusting od0r, and then mixed
with strange herbs and cooked. 1t is said
to be very fine and to bring high price
because il is hard to get.
Young crabs no bigger than an English
penny are very valuable. Frazer catches
all he can of them and puts them in kind
They are then cooked in sort OF tough
Jelly. and are ready for market.
To describe the different ways thai
Frazer prepares the queer things he gets
from the waters of San Francisco Bay
would take days. He fixes shrimps sc
that they look like tiny parings of leather
Holsters look like rope; jely-fish, as he
calls it, looks like q shapeless piecs OF
chocolate. and everything has somewhat
the same appearance.
Few of the things that he prepares are
eaten in that state. but afterward GO
through process of cooking in the hama
OF some Chinese cook. His work is more
in the line of preserving, and according to
what he says his fish will keep for cen.
tury.
Two or three times a month Frazer
climbs over the hill to Tiburon with a
large basket and takes the ferry for Sar
Francisco. His arrival IN Chinatown i:
hailed with delight, and he carries away
with him large quantity of the Celestals
gold. There is little doubt but that he is
getting rich at his business, for on one
occasion one basketful OF his ware:
brought him SIS. The Chinese look upoT
Frazer as great man, ana some say ns