The head has a snout two feet and a half long, and the jaws possess double rows of sharp and dangerous teeth.

These teeth were used by the natives as lancets with which to bleed themselves when they suffered from inflammation or headache.

Champlain declares that the gar-pike often captures and eats water birds.

It would swim in and among rushes or reeds and then raise its snout out of the water and keep perfectly still.

Birds would mistake this snout for the stump of a tree and would attempt to alight on it; whereupon the fish would seize them by the legs and pull them down under the water.] On Champlain's return from France in 1610 (he and other Frenchmen and Englishmen of the time made surprisingly little fuss about crossing the North Atlantic in small sailing vessels, in spite of the storms of spring and autumn) he found the Iroquois question still agitating the minds of the Algonkins, Montagnais, and Hurons.