InpusTRY OF WORLD-WILD InrorTANce. 329 
Fishermen from the isles of Guernsey and Jersey, with those 
from the British American Provinces, had come from afar, 
with their wives and little ones, and early in June settled in 
log cabins, to remain during the cod-fishing season, which, 
they supposed, would continue until September, when, with 
their freighted vessels, they would embark on their perilous 
voyage for home anda market. Their fleet numbered sixty 
sail, with a scull-boat (in which a sail might be hoisted in 
vase. of necessity) for each vessel. This fleet employed also 
two sail-boats, with nets, to catch eaplin for bait. Large 
shoals of caplin, smelt, and spearing foraged about the estu- 
ary and along the bay and coast, wisely intended, no doubt, 
as food for salmon, cod, and other members of the Gadide 
family, besides the more ferocious monsters of the deep, 
which seem to stop at nothing. During my stay of a week 
among these fishermen, and from what experience I before 
enjoyed with the class, I am forced to conclude, with Victor 
Hugo and others who have studied the habits of men, and 
deduced therefrom theories for the influence which their 
avocations exert upon their dispositions, that fishermen are 
the most amiable, patient, and obliging class of men in the 
world. They are temperate, industrious, frugal, and affec- 
tionate among themselves, and hospitable to strangers. 
THe CoprFisH. 
The fleet sailed out of the harbor every morning, each ves- 
sel taking a supply of bait as it passed the caplin-netters, 
when they would come to anchor at certain distances apart 
along the Banks, sometimes within a mile of shore, but more 
generally from five to twenty miles, always following the fish 
