BELLES AMOURS. II5 



tame, approaching within a foot of my finger even when 

 it was kept in motion. 



On one side of our harbor was, as at Caribou Island, a 

 sandy beach where the fishermen could haul their nets 

 for lance. The Newfoundlanders would come here in 

 their clumsy boats from a distance of eight miles, where 

 their vessels were at anchor, and seine for lance fish. 

 They made a great deal of noise about it, though there 

 were only two boats; one man would stand up in the 

 stern paying out the net, while the full boat's crew would 

 row rapidly around the fish, and another man standing up 

 to his waist in the water hauled in the net ; in this way 

 four barrels of fish are often caught at a single haul. 



Mr. Phoenix, one of our party, here caught a young 

 salmon eight inches long. The next day (the 25th) 

 saw us still weather-bound with thick fog and rain, clear- 

 ing up towar.ds the evening. In codfish caught at a 

 depth of fifteen or twenty fathoms we found large fine 

 specimens of the lobworm (^Arenuola piscatorum) and 

 a fine polar shrimp {Crangon boreas). To-day I found 

 the first Cyanea or nettling jelly-fish, the species which 

 grows on the banks of Newfoundland by the end of 

 summer, two feet in diameter, with long, trailing ten- 

 tacles sometimes six fathoms in length ; it is these 

 feelers, filled with microscopic darts or lasso-cells, which 

 become entangled with the lines and poison the hands 

 of the fishermen. As yet not a common jelly-fish, the 

 Aurelia aurita, had been seen. 



The next day we were released from our prison ; a 

 fresh northwest wind cleared the ice from the shore, and 

 our good ship made a fine run to Henley Harbor ; time 

 from 6 A.M. to 3.30P.M. As we sailed out of the harbor 



