CONTENTS 



PAGE 



Chap. I. International Discoveries . • • 3 



II. International Fisheries and an im- 

 perfect JLnglish Colony in New- 

 foundland 1 8 



III. The First Beginnings of a perfect 



English Colony in Newfoundland . 45 



IV. The Crisis and the Convoys, 1656-88 . 75 



V. The First Anglo-French Duel and 



English Victory, 1618-1713 . . ^y 



VI. A Half-century of Progress, 1713-63. 

 The Second Anglo-French Duel 

 and English Victory . . . .109 



VII. The Third Anglo-French Duel and 

 English Victory; and the Begin- 

 nings OF Permanence, 1763-1818 . 130 



VIII. Progress by Land during the Last 



Period, 1818-1910 159 



IX. Fish 192 



X. Bait-fish— Expansion— AND Conflict . 209 



APPENDICES 



Appendix A. Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Plans to 



annoy the king of spain, 1 577 . 242 



B. Sir Francis Walsingham's Plan to 

 annoy the king of spain, i585 . . 246 



C. Instructions to Sir John Gilbert, 

 October io, 1585 247 



