Note 53 — PART I
Reading edition
Reliquiæ Aquitanicæ (London, 1875), ii. p. 58. Christy’s solitary buttress for his opinion is a reference to “a Nootka Sound fishing implement,” which is identical (according to Rau, fig. 9) with a hook described in Mr. J. G. Swan’s The Indians of Cape Flattery, as used by the Makahs solely (and successfully) for the halibut, because “its mouth is vertical, instead of horizontal, like most fish.” The absence of halibut from débris or representations scarcely strengthens Christy’s opinion.