| Show tike salmon of hundreds of salman caiman were in right eight absolutely sol touching one another and as wo we crossed the river our horses nearly stepped upon them their back fina were visible as far as we could see the stream and aground and gasping in the shallows and lying dead or dying upon the banks were hundreds more the odor from these decaying deca ing fish was distinctly perceptible at a distance of a couple of hundred yards yarda or more in weight these salmon varied from beven to fifteen and even twenty pounds they were for the most part foul fish blotchy with patches of red and white and the kind known by thu the russians as tho the barbusa Gar busa but others in fair condition cereto were to be found foun dand and will with 1 I a I 1 italo trouble I 1 was able to pull out good ten pound fish in in as many minutes with a gall gaff any other method of isling would have been useless it would have been neatly neaily liepos impossible sible i make a cast W without foul hooking a and nine tenths or more of them were iu in nn an uneatable condition tho the craibe of tho the marchesa Harch esa |
