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fil’st; bv placed two or three inches behind the 
caught yfrh contrivance those that follow the bait will be 
seizing* it may not have an intention of actually 
that usn^ii method is certainly more successful than 
But ^^P^cycd by fishermen, with a single hook. 
^^cre th sometimes remain at the bottom, 
biformed ^th ^®bed for with a boat at anchor; and I am 
the '”^hen thus situated, they may be drarvn upward 
quantity bait prepared for the purpose. A 
bruised t° Pilchards that have become rancid, are 
t-ket, over the side of the boat in a 
offer in i? ^ePPmgs of Avhich, by the action of the sea, 
j(. ^ Element they are not able to resist. 
®®b, of ret'*^^^* happens that the usual habit of the half-grown 
®o far inter” water on the approach of winter, is 
®o late Biat they remain on the western coast even 
P’^'ey to fb ®cember and January, Avhen they fall an easy 
October th the year 1844, in the month of 
in taking fourteen 
pounds Ill'll which they obtained about four thousand 
Same di t also, there continued for tAvo months in the 
Oecember^'^Jclo^^’^^.® of small Mackarel; and in 
thousands' f iT' January of the following yeai-, many 
amona p-i n ^ ^ length of eight or ni.m inches, were caught 
’’'^s^y'^wer ^ a great number given to the poor. 
There ^ ^ periny a score and sixpence the flasket, 
au earl ^ when an extravagant price rvas paid for 
cP carri Mackarel in London, but the conveniency 
^^nefit T Z an end to this, and reduced the 
price of^th' ^'^''cnturers to a justcr level. The average 
communi t ^ through the season for seven years, as 
mne pou ^ fisherman, has varied from six pounds to 
rather”l^ ^ u the numbers caught in a boat 
tc twenty general size, rvith drift-nets, from fifteen 
^tiore than °”h But it will sometimes happen that 
single nicrbi- ^ l^®t-mentioned number will be caught in a 
It ' 
®trd rapid circumstance in the history of so strong 
to enemie ^ unfrequently becomes the prey 
w ich appear to be far inferior in these respects to 
