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vessels going to the fishing grounds. Having had. the 

 pleasure himself, he could recommend any one who visited 

 Cornwall to endeavour to get a night's fishing on board 

 one of those boats ; for no more beautiful scene could be 

 imagined than was presented on a fine evening on board a 

 boat off the Land's End. The energy of the Cornish fisher- 

 men had been referred to, but, like many others engaged 

 in the same vocation, they were remarkably conservative in 

 their habits, and it was very difficult to induce them to 

 adopt improved methods of fishing. He had had the great 

 satisfaction of introducing into this country the system of 

 preserving pilchards in oil, in the manner in which sardines 

 were preserved in France. There could be no question that 

 the sardine was exactly the same fish as the pilchard, and 

 those who had not tasted them he would recommend to buy 

 in future not the French sardines but the Cornish. He had 

 no interest personally in giving this advice, beyond the 

 desire of seeing an industry which he had established pros- 

 pering to the extent which it deserved. As an instance of 

 the difficulty of inducing the fishermen to take a " new de- 

 parture " in fishery matters, he related that on one occasion, 

 when off Penzance, he endeavoured to get the fishermen to 

 put aside the smaller fish, for the purpose of preserving them 

 as sardines, as it was found that the smaller ones were pre- 

 ferred for the purpose, but he had the greatest difficulty in 

 the world to induce the fishermen to adopt that simple pre- 

 caution. Every fish had to be taken out of the net, and 

 it would have been perfectly easy for the men to put the 

 small ones on one side and the large ones on the other, but 

 their conservative tendencies prevailed and they would not 

 take the trouble to do so. There was a saying that the 

 Cornish people could make anything into a pie ; and it was 

 said that if a certain gentleman, who should be nameless, 

 were to go there, he would be put into a pie ; and just as 



