The Journal of a Sporting Nomad 

 men, the different loads had to be apportioned 

 out and packed. 



I went with my host to pull up a lobster pot 

 which had been put down the previous night 

 about fifty yards from the jetty. We found 

 nine lobsters in it, huge fellows, worth four 

 shillings each in England, but " out there " to 

 be bought for three shillings a hundred. The 

 fishermen catch them by "jigging." A jig 

 consists of a bright, leaden, oblong weight, 

 studded with a number of long sharp pins 

 turned upwards, barbless hooks, and the method 

 of using is to let the weight down to the bottom, 

 when it is alternately jerked up and down 

 through a space of some two or three feet. The 

 lobsters rush at the shining lure, get impaled on 

 the pins, and are hauled aboard. This ingenious 

 scheme is also used for catching squid, and is 

 adopted on the banks of Newfoundland as a 

 means of obtaining bait for cod-fishing. 



We were all ready for a start on the second 

 morning after my arrival. The day was bright and 

 frosty, typical of early November. It took us 

 about three hours to arrive at the point where we 

 meant to leave the boat, and we hoped to make 

 permanent camp some twenty miles from the 

 landing-place. Each shouldering his pack we 

 set out for the small gulch or ravine known to 

 Johnny Peters, near the Barrens, or high table- 

 lands, where the caribou are to be found. The 



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