crimson flames and a suffused glow as 
     
     of some cosmic conflagration in far—off 
     
     space. 
     
    

    
     The white porpoise is hunted 
     
     with harpoons on the Saguenay and St. 
     
     Lawrence rivers. A length of fifteen 
     
     feet for this fish is not uncommon. They are not unlike the whale in 
     
     appearance and are often mistaken for their more unwieldy brother. 
     
     Much art is used to draw sufficiently near to make a good ‘strike.’ 
     
     A boat with a White bottom has been used for this purpose, with a 
     
     wooden porpoise, or decoy, painted slate-color in imitation of the 
     
     young fish. Fenced enclosures, formed like a trap, are quite common 
     
     in many parts of the river. The fish enter, become confused in 
     
     seeking an outlet, and are easily caught when the tide lowers. Seals 
     
     are also caught in this locality, and even small whales are harpooned 
     
     at times. 
     
    

    
     A broad sand~bank reaches out into the St. Lawrence just a 
     
     short distance above the Saguenay. It is related that here a whale 
     
     was pursued by a swordfish. The fish, provided by nature with its 
     
     sharp weapon of offence, was chasing the unlucky whale, which moved 
     
     with great rapidity in the direction of the shore, making huge leaps 
     
     out of the water and giving out loud bellowing sounds as it sped along. 
     
     The whale was all of forty feet in length, and its enemy was fully 
     
     grown and must have measured twenty feet over all. 
     
    

    
     Confused by the near approach of its dread enemy, the whale 
     
     went too close to the sand-bar and was soon floundering about in 
     
     only ten feet of water. The swordfish now made off, possibly alarmed 
     
     by the tremendous splashing and the too-near approach to land. As 
     
     the tide was rapidly going outbit falls some eighteen feet here— 
     
     there was danger for the whale in being stranded high and dry. 
     
     It lashed out with its tail and churned the water with billowing 
     
     foam. . At last after repeated rolls 
     
     towards deep water it got off, 
     
     and soon its joyful spouting could 
     
     be seen in the distance as it a. 
     
     escaped and made its way down ”I 
     
     the Gulf. 
     
    

    
     Seals are also caught with 
     
     the harpoon. To get near them 
     
     unperceived, Indians have made 
     
     holes in the sands at low tide. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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