470 FISHERIES AND FISHERMEN 



marvellous forms, their glowing hues, their lovely homes ; 

 belongs a world scarce penetrated yet by the eye of man. 

 To the fisherman has been assigned the nobler privilege of 

 offering an example of patient industry, of unrepining 

 poverty, of discipline and self-restraint at least during his 

 labours at sea, and of utter insensibility to danger in the 

 pursuit of duty, which marks the followers of that craft in 

 every country, even, so far as we can trace, from the very 

 earliest times. 



