CHAP. XXVI. CHARACTER OF THE FISHERMEX. 95 



We remained for one night at Long Point, enjoying 

 the hospitahty of ]\ir. Hamilton, of New Carlisle, Bay 

 of Chaleurs, who has extensive fishing estabHshments 

 at Long Point, the mouth of the Moisie, and at Seven 

 Islands. Mr. Hamilton has sixty men employed at each 

 of the two first-named posts. He sends his fish directly 

 to Spain or the Brazils, and when the ' take ' is good, and 

 the season for curing an average one, the profits are very 

 great. The fishermen are generally a quiet and industrious 

 race, but when under the influence of liquor, they become 

 exceedingly difiicult to manage, and scenes of riot and 

 bloodshed not unfrequently occur. The appointment 

 of magistrates at the different fishing-stations has been 

 instrumental in checking disorder and crime, but the 

 power to carry the law into effect is wanting. One vessel 

 is not sufficient to secure a proper observance of the laws 

 on this wild and distant coast, and many dark deeds have 

 been committed which will never see the light. 



One suspicious circumstance occurred at Long Point 

 shortly after we left it, which will be noticed in a sub- 

 sequent chapter. 



I left the canoes at Long Point to be brought after me 

 in a schooner, and hired a fisherman's boat to convey us and 

 our supplies to Mingan harbour. We set sail in the after- 

 noon of the 22nd, and in two hours reached the post of the 

 Hudson's Bay Company situated near the mouth of the 

 Muigan Eiver, a distance of six miles from Long Point. 

 We were very cordially received by Mr. Anderson, chief 

 factor, for whose kind attention and valuable assistance in 

 many different ways I am glad to have an opportunity 

 of recording my warm acknowledgements. 



