r,()() REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [12] 



Danish autliorities also object to tlie employment, on board of Amerieaii 

 or British \essels, of the Eskimo ; and natives that were on board of the 

 Byron and Herman Babsou, the latter of (rloncester, wer.^ taken ont of 

 those \'essels by a Danish war steamer. 



The schooner Herman Babson brought home about 00,000 pounds of 

 iiitclies. The schooner Mary E.. of (iloueester, took 50,000 i)onnds of 

 tiitches otf Ca])e Amalia, and the schooner I^list, of the same i)ort, 

 brought in about 70,000 pounds ot tiitches from the Cape Amalia 



ground. 



It will be seen from the foregoing that the vessels that went to Ice- 

 land averaged more than doulde the catch of those which resorted to 

 Davis Strait, and it is reasonable to assume that the Iceland fleet may 

 be nuu'h larger next year than it was during the past season. 



Glot-'OESTKU, Mass., t^eptemhcr '2,i, 1884. 



