Crossword-Solution: COREGONUS 9 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Indian names are usually descriptive, but their name for this is simply "The Fish." All others are mere dilutes and cheap imitations, but the Coregonus is at all times and par excellence "The Fish." Nevertheless, in looking at it I could not help feeling that this is the fat swine, or the beef Durham of its kind.

The Whitefish served in the marble palaces of other lands is as mere dish-water to champagne, when compared with the three times purified and ten times intensified dazzling silver Coregonus as it is landed on the bleak shores of those far-away icy lakes.

Pikes, voracious lobes, a sort of charr or grayling called “ blue fish,” and countless legions of tittamegs, the Coregonus of naturalists, disported themselves in the water, so that the inhabitants of Fort Reliance were well supplied with food.

Among the special advantages of these last are the device by which meals are served in the fresh atmosphere of what is practically the upper deck, the excellent service of the neat lads who officiate as waiters and are said to be often college students turning an honest summer penny, and the frequent presence in the bill of fare of the _Coregonus clupeiformis_, or Lake Superior whitefish, one of the most toothsome morsels of the deep.

There is scarcely any better eating in the way of fish than _coregonus_--a new species discovered at Point Barrow by the _Corwin_--and certainly no more dainty game exists than the young wild geese and ptarmigan to be found in countless numbers in Hotham inlet.