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friends, enriched with skins and other produce of the 

 country, in which they had been exiled. 



In modern times, people of the same nation have 

 been in the habit of submitting to a voluntary 

 transportation, with the object of making some con- 

 siderable advantage, by the opportunities which 

 such a measure affords them, of hunting and fishing. 

 These persons were formerly employed in the ser- 

 vice of the " White Sea Fishing Company ;" but 

 this company being now no longer in existence, the 

 trade is conducted by private adventurers*. They 

 now proceed from IVIegen, Archangel, Onega, Rala, 

 and other places bordering the White Sea, in ves- 

 sels of 60 to 160 tons, some intended for the sum- 

 mer fishing, and otliers for the winter. The former 

 put to sea in the beginning of June, and sometimes 

 return in September ; the latter sail about a month 

 later, and wintering in the most secure coves of 

 Devil Bay ? Bell Sound, Horn Sound, Cross Bay, 

 Magdalena Bay, Love Bay, and others, return 

 home in the month of August or September of the 

 following yearf. 



The fishermen reside on shore during the winter, 

 in huts of the same kind as those used by the peas- 



* From a communication in answer to queries sent to Arch- 

 angel by myself, in the year 1815, through Mr Edward Stew- 

 ard of Whitby. 



+ Col. Beaufoy's QuerieS;, No. 1. 



