14 VIKINGS OF TO-DAY 



fruitful woombe of the earthe, without the labour of 

 man's hand, great plenty of greene pease and fitches 

 faire, round, full and wholesome . . . great store 

 of hay also . . . Then have you here strau- 

 berries red and white, and as faire rasberries and 

 gooseberries as there be in England; as also multi- 

 tudes of bilberries, which are called by some whortes, 

 and many other delicate berries, which I cannot 

 name, in great abundance. 



Peares, 



Sowre cherries, 



Filberds, 



of which divers times eating their fill, I never heard 

 of any man whose health was thereby any way im- 

 paired." 



The rivers contain salmon for about one month 

 in the summer. These seem, however, to be very 

 susceptible to cold, and are seldom taken north of 

 Hopedale. In seasons when the drift ice remains 

 long on the coast the number of salmon caught is 

 always largely diminished. They seldom take a fly. 

 On the other hand the trout are very voracious, 

 very large and numerous, and will rise at any bait. 

 They remain all the year, and are easily caught in 

 winter by cutting a hole in the ice and letting down 

 a hook with a bit of raw meat. The women largely 

 replenish their larder in this way. Cod are far and 

 away the most important of all Labrador products 

 at present they are called " fish," and even in legal 

 terms are the only denizens of the sea recognised as 



