Generally veiled with mists, Newfoundland appears at first sight gloomy and repulsive4. Abrupt5 cliffs, showing here and there traces of a scanty6 vegetation, rise steep and bare from the sea, and for miles and miles the eye sees nothing but brown hills or higher mountains, desolate and wild as they appeared in the eleventh century to the bold Norwegian navigators who first landed on its desert shore. The waves of the ocean have everywhere corroded7 the rocky coast into fantastic pinnacles8 or excavated9 deep grottoes in its flanks. In one of these cavities the action of the surge has produced a remarkable10 phenomenon, known under the name of “The Spout11.” In stormy weather the waves penetrate12 into the hollow and force their way with a dreadful noise from an aperture13 in the rock as a gigantic fountain visible at a distance of several miles.21
The interior of the country corresponds with the forbidding appearance of the coasts, and offers nothing but a succession of forests, marshes, and barrens. The forests, if they may thus be called, generally grow on the declivities of the hills or on the sides of the valleys, where the superfluous15 waters find a natural drain. The trees consist for the most part of fir, spruce, birch, pine, and juniper or larch16; and in certain districts the wych-hazel, the mountain-ash, the elder, the aspen, and some others are found. The character of the timber varies greatly according to the nature of the subsoil and the situation. In some parts, more especially where the woods have been undisturbed by the axe17, trees of fair height and girth may be found; but most of the wood is of stunted18 growth, consisting chiefly of fir-trees about twenty or thirty feet high, and not more than three or four inches in diameter. These commonly grow so closely together that their twigs19 and branches interlace from top to bottom, while among them may be seen innumerable old and rotten stumps20 and branches, or newly-fallen trees, which, with the young shoots and brushwood, form a tangled21 and often impenetrable thicket22. The trees are often covered with lichens23, and tufts of white dry moss24 are entangled25 about the branches. Other green and softer mosses26 spread over the ground, concealing27 alike the twisted roots of the standing28 trees and the pointed29 stumps of those which have fallen,377 the sharp edges or slippery surface of the numerous rocks and boulders30, and the holes and pitfalls32 between them. Every step through these woods is consequently a matter of great toil33 and anxiety. In the heat of summer, while the woods are so thick as to shut out every breath of air, they are at the same time too low and too thinly leaved at top to exclude the rays of the sun, the atmosphere being further rendered close and stifling34 by the smell of the turpentine which exudes35 from the trees.
Inclosed in these gloomy woods, large open tracts36, called marshes, are found covering the valleys and lower lands, and frequently also at a considerable height above the sea on the undulating backs of the mountains. These tracts are covered to a depth sometimes of several feet with a green, soft, and spongy moss, bound together by straggling grass and various marsh-plants. The surface abounds37 in hillocks and holes, the tops of the hillocks having often dry crisp moss like that on the trees. A boulder31 or small crag of rock occasionally protrudes38, covered with red or white lichens, and here and there is a bank on which the moss has become dry and yellow. The contrast of these colors with the dark velvety39 green of the wet moss frequently gives a peculiarly rich appearance to the marshes, so that when seen from a little distance they might easily be mistaken for luxuriant meadow-grounds, but a closer inspection40 soon destroys the illusion, and shows, instead of nutritious41 grass and aromatic42 flowers, nothing but a carpet of useless cryptogamic plants. Except in long-continued droughts or hard frosts, these marshes are so wet as to be unable to bear the weight of a person walking over them. A march of three miles, sinking at every step into the moss, sometimes knee-deep, and always as far as the ankle, is, it may well be supposed, toilsome and fatiguing43, especially when, as must always be the case in attempting to penetrate the country, a heavy load is carried on the shoulders. This thick coating of moss is precisely44 like a great sponge spread over the country, and becomes at the melting of the snow in the spring thoroughly45 saturated46 with water, which it long retains, and which every shower of rain continually renews.
The “barrens” of Newfoundland are those districts which occupy the summits of the hills and ridges47, and other elevated and exposed tracts. They are covered with a thin and scrubby vegetation, consisting of berry-bearing plants and dwarf48 bushes of various species, resembling the moorlands of the north of England, and differing only in the kind of vegetation and its scantier49 quantity. Bare patches of gravel50 and boulders and crumbling51 fragments of rock are frequently met with upon the barrens, and they are generally altogether destitute52 of vegetable soil. But only on the barrens is it possible to explore the interior of the country with any kind of ease or expedition. These different tracts are none of them of any great extent; woods, marshes, and barrens frequently alternating with each other in the course of a day’s journey.
Another remarkable feature of Newfoundland is the almost incredible number of lakes of all sizes, all of which are indiscriminately called ponds. They are scattered53 over the whole country, not only in the valleys but on the higher lands; and even in the hollows of the summits of the ridges and the very tops of the hills. They vary in size from pools of fifty yards in diameter to lakes upward378 of thirty miles long and four or five miles across. The number of those which exceed a couple of miles in extent must on the whole amount to several hundreds, while those of a smaller size are absolutely countless54. It is supposed that a full third of the surface of the island is covered by fresh water, and this reckoning is rather below than above the mark. In a country so abundantly provided with lakes or ponds, it seems strange to find no navigable rivers. The undulating surface of the land, with its abrupt hills and deep gullies, is, without all doubt, one cause of this absence of larger streams.
Each pond or small set of ponds communicates with a valley of its own, down which it sends an insignificant55 brook56, which takes the nearest course to the sea. The chief cause, however, both of the vast abundance of ponds and the comparative scantiness57 of the brooks58, is to be found in the great coating of moss which spreads over the country, and retains the water like a sponge, allowing it to drain off but slowly and gradually.
The wilds of Newfoundland are tenanted by numerous fur-bearing animals, affording a great source of gain to some of the fishermen, who in winter turn furriers. Arctic foxes are here in all their variety. Beavers59, once nearly extirpated60, but now unmolested owing to the low value of their fur, are increasing in numbers. Brown bears are pretty numerous, and Polar bears sometimes find their way to the northern promontory61 of the island upon the ice which comes drifting down in spring from Davis’s Straits. By way of contrast, in hot summers the tropical humming-bird has been known to visit the southern shores of Newfoundland. Reindeer62 are abundant, but unfortunately their enemies the wolves have likewise increased in number, since the reward given by the Colonial Government for their destruction has ceased to be paid.
Although in the same latitude63 as Central France and the south of Germany, Newfoundland has a long and severe winter, owing to the two vast streams of Arctic water, the Davis’s Straits and East Greenland currents, which combine and run by its shores; and the summer, though sometimes intensely hot, is so short and so frequently obscured by fogs that, even were the soil less sterile64, agriculture must necessarily be confined to narrow limits. The little wheat and barley65, cultivated on the inside lands far above the sea-shore, is often cut green, and carrots, turnips66, potatoes, and cabbages are nearly all the esculent vegetables which the land has been proved capable of producing.
Hence we can not wonder that the whole island, which is considerably67 larger than Scotland, has only about 90,000 inhabitants, and even these would have had no inducement to settle on so unpromising a soil if the riches of the sea did not amply compensate68 for the deficiencies of the land. Fish is the staple69 produce of Newfoundland, and the bulk of its population consists of poor fishermen, who have established themselves along the deep bays by which the coast is indented70, and catch near the coast vast quantities of cod71, which they bring in and cure at their leisure, in order to have it ready for the ships when they arrive. With the outer world they have little communication, and a visit to St. John’s, the capital of the island, forms an epoch72 in their solitary73 lives.
This town lies at the head of a wide and secure bay, and consists of a main street fronting the water, from which narrow, dirty lanes and alleys14 branch out379 towards the land. The dingy74, unpainted houses are built of wood, the Government edifices75 only being constructed of brick or stone. The long rows of fish-stages along the shore attract the stranger’s attention, but he is still more astonished at the countless gin and beer shops, which at once tell him he is in a place where thirsty sailors and fishermen form the mass of the population. In the winter St. John’s is comparatively deserted76, as it then has no more than about 10,000 inhabitants, but their number is doubled or trebled during the fishing-season.
The island of Newfoundland, first seen and visited in the eleventh century by the Norse colonists77 of Greenland, and then utterly78 forgotten, was rediscovered in 1497 or 1498 by John and Sebastian Cabot.
The richness of its cod-fisheries soon attracted attention, and fishermen from Spain, France, Portugal, and England annually79 visited its banks. The best harbors along the coast were occupied by the first comers in spring—a circumstance which gave rise to frequent quarrels. To obviate80 this lawless state of affairs, Sir Humphrey Gilbert was sent out by Queen Elizabeth in 1583 to take possession of the land. He divided the coast about St. John’s into districts, and the British settlers willingly agreed to pay a tax to Government in the expectation of seeing their interests better protected. The new arrangement had a beneficial effect on the trade of Newfoundland, for in 1615 more than 250 English vessels81 visited St. John’s, and gradually the whole of the eastern coast of the island was occupied by English fishermen.
The French on their part colonized82 the north and south sides of the island, and founded the town of Placentia, once a very considerable place, but now reduced to insignificance83. The rivalry of the French was naturally a great source of jealousy84 to a nation ill-accustomed to brook any foreign intrusion into its commercial interests. Thus, after the war of the Spanish succession, Great Britain demanded and obtained by the Treaty of Utrecht the sole possession of Newfoundland; and Louis XIV., anxious for peace on any terms, willingly acceded85 to this sacrifice, merely reserving for his subjects the right to dry on the shores of the island the fish they had caught on the banks. By the subsequent treaties of Paris the French were restricted to the small islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, but not allowed to erect87 fortifications of any kind.
Besides the English and the French, the Americans also have the right to fish on the banks of Newfoundland; for when England acknowledged the independence of the United States, a formal article of the treaty of peace secured to the latter the fishing privileges which they had previously88 enjoyed as colonies.
The value of the dry codfish alone exported every year from Newfoundland is on an average about £400,000, while the total value of the exported productions in fish, oil, and skins is upward of £700,000. This, from a population of 80,000 or 90,000, proves that the people of the island ought to be happy and prosperous; but unfortunately a system of credit renders the bulk of the fishermen entirely89 dependent on the merchants, and want of education is a further source of evil.
Though vast quantities of cod are taken along the shores of Newfoundland,380 yet the most important fishery is carried on on the banks at some distance from the island.
The Great Bank lies twenty leagues from the nearest point of land from latitude 41° to 49°, and extends 300 miles in length and 75 in breadth. To the east of this lies the False Bank; the next is styled the Green Bank, about 240 miles long and 120 broad; then Banquero, about the same size, with several other shoals of less note, all abounding90 with fish, but chiefly with cod, the great magnet which sets whole fleets in motion. In winter the cod retire to the deeper waters, but they re-appear in March and April, when their pursuers hasten to the spot, not only from the bays and coves91 of Newfoundland, but from Great Britain, the United States, and France.
While fishing, each man has a space three feet and a half wide allotted92 to him on deck, so as not to interfere93 with his neighbor. The lines are from thirty to forty fathoms94 long—for the cod generally swims at that depth. The chief baits used are the squid, a species of cuttle-fish, and the capelin, a small salmon95 abounding on the North American coasts. The herring and the launce, and a shell-fish called clam96, which is found in the belly97 of the cod, are likewise used. In spring particularly the cod rushes so eagerly upon the bait, that in the course of a single day a good fisherman is able to haul up four hundred, one after another. This is no easy task, considering the size of the fish, which on an average weighs fourteen pounds, but has been taken four feet three inches long, and forty-six pounds in weight. When a large fish, too heavy for the line, has been caught, the fisherman calls on his neighbor, who strikes a hook attached to a long pole into the fish, and then safely hauls it on board.
Mindful of the proverb which recommends us all to strike while the iron is hot, the fishermen continue to catch cod for hours, until so many are heaped on the deck that to make room it becomes necessary to “dress them down.” This is done on long planks98 made to rest with both ends on two casks, and thus forming a narrow table. First, each man cuts out the tongues of the fish he has caught, as his wages are reckoned by their number, and then the whole crew divide themselves into throaters, headers, splitters, salters, and packers. The throater begins the operation of “dressing” by drawing his knife across the throat of the cod to the bone and ripping open the bowels99. He then passes it to the header, who with a strong wrench100 pulls off the head and tears out the entrails, which he casts overboard, passing the fish at the same time to the splitter, who with one cut lays it open from head to tail, and almost in the twinkling of an eye with another cut takes out the backbone101. After separating the sounds, which are placed with the tongues and packed in barrels as a delicacy102, the backbone follows the entrails overboard, while the fish at the same moment is passed with the other hand to the salter. Such is the amazing quickness of the operations of heading and splitting, that a good workman will often decapitate and take out the entrails and backbone of six fish in a minute. Every fisherman is supposed to know something of each of these operations, and no rivals at cricket ever entered with more ardor103 into their work than do some athletic104 champions for the palm of “dressing down” after a “day’s catch.”
Generally the fog is so dense105 that one ship does not see the other, although381 both may be so near that the crews distinctly hear each other’s voices. Frequently one is hardly able to see to the distance of a few feet, and the large drops of the condensed mist fall like rain from the yards. During calm weather the aspect of the sea is so dismal106 that it requires all the buoyant spirits of a seaman107 to resist its depressing influence. For days the calm remains108 unbroken, and no sound is heard but that of a fish darting109 out of the water, or the screech110 of a sea-bird flitting over the sea. But sometimes a storm breaks this awful silence of nature. At such times the fishing-ships, hidden in mists, run the greatest danger of striking against each other, although signal-lanterns and alarm-trumpets are used to give warning. A tremendous wave bursting on the deck often strikes them with such force as to sink them or dash them to pieces against the rocky coast. Thus many a widow and orphan111 has a mournful tale to relate of the dangers of the cod-fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
In some parts of the coast where the water is sufficiently112 shallow the codfish are now caught in sieves113 or nets. This operation requires more capital to commence with than the mere86 boat and hooks and lines of the common fishermen, and, like all improvements, met at first with much opposition114, on the plea that it must interfere with the interests of the poorer class. It is obvious, however, that the use of the net is advantageous115 to the trade at large, for shoals, or, as they are termed, “schools,” of fish may sometimes be seen sweeping116 along shore, which but for the net would escape altogether. Besides, there seems such an incalculable abundance of the fish that there will always be enough to hook, enough to jig117, enough to net, and more than enough to go away.
“One calm July evening,” says Mr. Jukes,22 “I was in a boat just outside St. John’s harbor, when the sea was pretty still, and the fish were ‘breaching,’ as it is termed. For several miles around us the calm sea was alive with fish. They were sporting on the surface of the water, flirting118 their tails occasionally into the air, and as far as could be seen the water was rippled119 and broken by their movements. Looking down into its clear depths, codfish under codfish of all sizes appeared swimming about as if in sport. Some boats were fishing, but not a bite could they get, the fish being already gorged120 with food. Had the ground been shallow enough to use nets, the harbor might have been filled with fish.”
Besides the cod-fishery, seal-catching is also carried on with considerable success on the eastern coast, which intercepts121 many immense fields and islands of ice as they move southward in the spring from the Arctic Sea. The interior parts of these drifting shoals, with the lakes or openings interspersed122, remain unbroken, and on them myriads123 of seals maybe found. In the month of March or April, as soon as the ice-fields descend124 with the currents from Davis’s Straits, many small ships, not only from the harbors of the east coast of Newfoundland, but even from the distant Scotch125 ports, particularly Aberdeen, put out to sea, and boldly plunge126 into all the openings of the ice-fields to make war upon the seals. Armed with firelocks and heavy bludgeons, the crews surprise the animals on the ice. In this way thousands are killed yearly from the north, but their numbers have latterly decreased, and the seal-catchers pay the penalty of their heedless and indiscriminate slaughter127.
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salmon
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