336 LABRADOR 
unique. In 1776, August 7 to il, Cartwright took 1230 
salmon from the pool in one week. “At Paradise we have 
214 tierce ashore. Few escape there.” In his “artless” 
poem he writes :— 
“. , . salmon up fresh rivers take their way, 
For them the stream is carefully beset ; few fish escape.” 
That is not to be wondered at, for he says, ‘“‘ My ten nets, 
each forty fathoms long, fastened end to end, stretch right 
across the stream.” 
On auly 17, 1779, 
“Tn Eagle River we are killing 750 salmon a day, or 
35 tierce, and we would have killed more had we had more 
nets. Three hundred and fifty tierce ashore already at 
Paradise. If I had more nets, I could have killed a 
thousand tierce alone at this post, the fish averaging from 
15 to 32 pounds apiece. At Sandhill Cove two men have 
240 tierce ashore, and would have had more, but we had no 
more salt.” 
From June 23 to July 20, in Eagle River, he killed 
12,396 fish, or 300 tierce. In 1782 he writes: “ Little or no 
salmon at Cartwright, only 80 tierce.” In 1786 he writes: 
“We have 490 tierce in White Bear River, and Paradise 
R. and 165 tierce at Charles Hr.” Naturally enough the 
archaic story of the clause in the apprentice’s indentures, 
that he was “not to be forced to eat salmon more than 
thrice a week” is told of Labrador in these days. 
In 1818 Mr. Pinson was getting two hundred tierce of 
salmon at Cartwright. He received a bounty of three 
shillings per quintal for this shipment to England. 
In 1864 Mr. Stone’s average catch at Henley was sixty 
