Just as birds and wild-fowl return, if not disturbed, to their accustomed breeding-places, so, it is said, the fishes, year by year, drop and impregnate their spawn upon the same gravelly shallows.

The food of the whitefish in the lake is partly the worms bred from the eggs of a large fly resembling the May-fly of the East.

This worm has probably decreased in the upper part of the lake, and therefore the fish go farther down for food.

There they are exceedingly numerous, an evidence of which is the fact that the Roman Catholic Mission alone secured 17,000 fine whitefish the previous fall.

Properly protected this lake will be a permanent source of supply to natives and incomers for many years to come.
Stock-raising was already becoming a feature of the region.