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bank. Mother Carey's chickens, which frequent the banks, are often 

 caught for food by the fishermen. ^ They are taken on a hook baited 

 with a bit of fat ; their flesh is very oih\ 



On the west coast of Newfoundland the fishery is carried on by 

 nomadic schooners or by the livyers. Expeditions commence when 

 caplin appear; the caplin are chased northward by the cod, and the 

 fishermen following the latter gradually progress up the coast, care- 

 fully fishing bays, creeks, and harbors as they go, until toward the 

 end of July they usually rendezvous in the neighborhood of Old or 

 New Ferolle. The gulf fishermen then return south and fish in the 

 various harbors and bays. 



A very common method is to sail from place to place, stopping 

 wherever good signs of fish are found, and leaving for other places 

 when the fish disappear. The anchoring ground and duration of stay 

 depend entirely on whether the cod are plentiful, and the result of 

 the expedition is a matter of chance. 



xA.bout 34,411 tons of cod are annually imported into France.^ 



Hospital steamer. — The French hospital steamer, St. Francois 

 d'Assise, usually frequents the banks during the fishing season, and 

 although her main object is to attend to French fishermen, sick sea- 

 men of any nationality are treated gratuitously. 



Green island, lying northeastward, distant 4J miles from the 

 eastern end of Great Colombier, is i mile long and 156 feet high. 

 Southward from it are Little Green islets and rocks, the outer of 

 which, Enfant perdu, is distant 1^ miles. 



The eastern of these rocks covers at two-thirds flood, and bears 

 177°, distant 1,100 yards from the southern end of Green island. 



Intended light. — The government of Newfoundland has pub- 

 lished information to the effect that, at the opening of navigation in 

 1909, a light for the guidance of mariners would be exhibited from 

 a circular iron tower erected on the summit of Green island, at the 

 southern entrance to Fortune bay. The lighthouse is painted red, 

 and the keeper's dwelling and the engine and store houses are painted 

 red and white in vertical stripes. 



Fog" signal. — A siren near the lighthouse sounds every 90 seconds, 

 thus: — blast, 3 seconds; silent interval, 87 seconds, during thick 

 weather, fog, or snowstorms. 



Little Miquelon or Langlade island, situated northwest- 

 ward 3 miles from St. Pierre island, is steep-to ; the sides are cliffy 

 except on its northern coast. The summit, which is 656 feet high, is 

 nearly flat, and this is the general appearance of the island, but on 

 easterly bearings some hummocks show out at the northern end. 

 Little Miquelon is connected with Great Miquelon by a sandy neck 

 5^ miles long, at the northern end of which is a large pond named 

 Great Barachois, to which small craft find access at high water, 

 entering from the eastern side of the beach. 



