Identifier: labradorcountryp02gren (find matches)
Title: Labrador, the country and the people
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir, 1865-1940
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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f the fish would seem to come from the perch Hke rough-ness of its scales. Last and least of the common southwestern fishes is theriver-chub, or dace, which in the cold streams is goodthroughout the summer. It should be skinned rather thanscaled. Its native name is uitiish stone-carrier, fromits well-known habit of piling up pebbles in the shallows. The wooden spear is used for all kinds of large fish attimes, especially for the salmon. To fish with a torch andspear is waswdno, hence Waswanipi lake, south of Hud-son Bay, and possibly Ashwanipi, the large lake north ofthe Moisie on Hamilton Water. According to John Bastian, a young Scotch-Montagnaisof Pointe Bleue, who was hunting there between Mistinikand Kaniapishkau, that region has practically no rabbitsor beaver, — there being little food for them, — althoughit is a good district for martens. Other subsistence failing,John and his companion were thrown wholly upon fish,caught with difficulty and boiled without salt, for two or
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Indians watching the Caribou at a Crossing

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