74); this is described as having scales of a very large and stiff kind, and being a beautiful bright silver in colour.

The size of these gar-pike range from two feet to four feet in length.

Their flesh was delicately white and soft, but so foul and rank in taste that even the Indians would not eat it.

The trout in Lake Athabaska seem to have been enormous, weighing from 35 to 40 pounds, while pike were of about the same weight.
The Amerindian tribes and the early European explorers lived mainly on fish, which was a palatable and easily obtained food.

Yet it must be admitted that they had a splendid array of large and small game from which to take their toll.
Nor was the whole Dominion, from west to east and up to the Arctic zone, wanting in wild vegetable produce fit for man's consumption.