When the spearsman makes a sure blow, he often strikes the head of the spear through the body of the fish.

It comes off easily, and leaves the salmon struggling with the string through its body, while the pole is still held by the spearsman.

Were it not for the precaution of the string, the willow shaft would be snapped by the struggles and the weight of the fish.

Mr.Miller, in the course of his wanderings, had been at these falls, and had seen several thousand salmon taken in the course of one afternoon.

He declared that he had seen a salmon leap a distance of about thirty feet, from the commencement of the foam at the foot of the falls, completely to the top.
Having purchased a good supply of salmon from the fishermen, the party resumed their journey, and on the twenty-ninth, arrived at the Caldron Linn, the eventful scene of the preceding autumn.