CHAPTER VII.

A Breakfast with the Bachelor--Up Harrison River in a Canoe--Dead Salmon Everywhere--Their Stench Nauseating--The Water Poisoned with Carrion--A Good Goose Spoiled with an Express Bullet--Lively Salmon on the Falls--Strange Instinct of this Noble Fish--Life Sacrificed in the Effort to Reach its Spawning Grounds--Ranchmen Fishing with Pitchforks, and Indians with Sharp Sticks--Salmon Fed to Hogs, and Used as Fertilizers; the Prey of Bears, Cougars, Wild Cats, Lynxes, Minks, Martins, Hawks, and Eagles.