MISSIONARY 37

to become instructed in one of the many ways and
means which human ingenuity has devised to obviate
the pangs of hunger in primitive quarters. The creek
whose roaring filled the air, was narrow, but extremely
swift, nay, almost a succession of cascades. This is
how the best is made of that double circumstance.

‘In some places where the stream contracts to an
insignificant width and, in escaping from its rocky
embankment, produces a fall deep enough temporarily
to impede the salmon'’s course upwards, the Carriers
simply bridge the fall over and with bark ropes suspend
therefrom a sort of lattice, seven or eight feet wide,
the lower extremity of which is curved up like a pot-
hanger. When the fish attempts to jump over the
fall, it strikes the latticed barrier and drops back into
the basket-like bottom.’’'’ Of this Father Morice had
an instance under his eyes.

To return to those who had contrived it and who
seemed to be undiscoverable. The missionary was
more lucky the following year. After his third annual
visit to Lhuskez, he had the happiness of finding at
home the people of Lhkacho. It is impossible to
describe the joy and noisy demonstrations, tempered
by awe, with which they greeted him. These can
be readily surmised by those who remember that
they had never seen a minister of religion before.

Their guest of a few days baptized, as usual, the
little children; taught the adults by means of an
interpreter, as they did not understand the Chilcotin
dialect; and put up in their midst that so useful
organization to be seen in all Catholic villages: chief,
captain or subchief, watchmen and soldiers.

He then promised them a second visit the following
year and returned home wi@ Lhuskez, the Chilcotin

13 Morice, The Western Dénés, p. 129; Toronto, 1890,