Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . THE STURGEON. The sturgeon of the New Brunswick waters are 128 THRILLING ADVENTURES. large, frequently eight feet in length, and sometimestwelve. They are a coarse fish, not at all esteemed,are seldom caught or molested, and therefore running up stream, they leap out of the waterto a great height. A good story is told of an oldsquaw: whilst paddling down the river, one of thesefi
Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . THE STURGEON. The sturgeon of the New Brunswick waters are 128 THRILLING ADVENTURES. large, frequently eight feet in length, and sometimestwelve. They are a coarse fish, not at all esteemed,are seldom caught or molested, and therefore running up stream, they leap out of the waterto a great height. A good story is told of an oldsquaw: whilst paddling down the river, one of thesefish jumped on board her canoe with such impetusthat it must have gone clean through the bottom, hadnot Molly Greenbaize, quick as lightning, seized it bythe tail before the head and shoulders of the fish hadgot well through; and, its progress thus arrested, itdid the duty of a plug, until she contrived to workher canoe ashore. The trout-fishing is excellent, and nowhere to besurpassed, except, perhaps, in Labrador. No sooner. THE TEOUT. does the ice break up, than mj^riads of flies appearupon the water, and the trout come upon them atonce. The Indians, not being disciples of IzaakWalton, know no other means of fishing for themthan by cutting a hole in the ice, when the fish in-stantly come to the aperture, and will take almostany kind of bait; they, however, do not considerthem worth the trouble of fishing for, and only resortto the piscatorial art when in actual want on a hunt-ing expedition, or when other game fails. In the INDIAN FISHING IN NEW BRUNSWICK. 129 Eedhead Eiver, some few miles from St. Johns, are tobe caught the most delicious trout: it is a back-waterfrom the sea, and is occasionally affected by it at veryhigh spring tides, a circumstance which, no doubt, hasits influence on the flavour of the fish. In the LoughLomond Lakes, also in the chain of lakes beyond theBald Mountain, having their outlet in the Musquashmarshes, and in the rivers connecting these lakes, th
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