CHAPTER XIII. 



SALMON FISHING IN LABRADOR. 



HALIFAX, reader, have you ever been in Halifax? 

 Many places are to be found less to be admired and less 

 agreeable to live in, although I have heard sailors 

 quote the saying, usually applied to its namesake in Old 

 England, " deliver us from Hell, Hull, and Halifax/' 

 Why this condemnation, I know not. For my part, 

 I have been in many towns less pleasant ; the inha- 

 bitants are hospitable and genial, the society is good, 

 and the ladies have no small pretensions to being 

 considered beautiful. Having spent a couple of weeks 

 lounging about Halifax with nothing to do, at length 

 I decided to go in search of adventure, and, if possible, 

 get a few days' salmon fishing. 



Having come to this conclusion, on examining the 

 local papers, I found that the good schooner Alert, re- 

 gistered A 1, would sail on the morrow for the Straits of 

 Belle Isle, to collect salt fish from the coast, weather 



