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    292 JSTEWIiYN AND ITS PISHWOMEIST.

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    1 N How Atur Frequentl E Has Been Y Leas...

    their a onl crew safel "build undertook . achieved On one a the voyage occasion distance to , Australia not there many and in years back their since , but own , were it boat is , said intrusted and , that not y

    en route y with the Mail from the Cape . There are few capitalists in Newl their yn boat itself s' , the peop of fish le b . eing Few poor of the , and fishermen their sole even dependence are in a upon

    position to be the cargoes sole owner of a boat , net , crew , & c . The proprietorship isthereforegenerally invested in several : one , perhaps , owning

    the , boattwo , or three the net , whilst others bring their labor to them the partnershi according , p to ; the the share profits of whatever of the catch capital are then they have divide separatel d among y

    the invested fishers . The either pilchard upon the merchants arrival of make the boats their , or own , more bargains frequentl with y ,

    purchasing , the pilchards wholesale after the fish are cured . In a having good year been the known cargo landed to realize is most as valuable much as , one £ 200 boat . ' s The load yearl alone y

    arrival of the fish at the same locality and period _^ with their total ¦ di with sapp our ear utter ance i again gnorance , for from at least whence six months they come of , or the wher year e , they coup go led ,

    is remarkable . and The their pilchards approach emerge at the from fisheries their , as winter may be quarters expected for in their , the is anxiousl summer y ,

    awaiteda regular machinery being organized capture . They shadow congregate , that they in cast shoals in the , and water their at coming a distance is . telegraphed by the

    who Newl is p yn laced , like when every the other season fishing commences town , has , to its look Huer out , or for watchman the fish , ,

    on some eminence , commanding the entire bay . Upon this indihe _vidiial is therefor ' s sagacit e y carefull and perception chosen the to whole fill the result post , of and the receives catch turns very ; y

    good nalises also one wages the where approach for the his services fishers of a shoal can . The see they him position prep , and are which the for moment immediate the Huer that action takes he si . g is

    -When once the appearance of the fish are telegraphed , the Huer ' s whole attention is fixed on the movements of the shoal . Armed with

    backwards a pole , or more and forwards commonly accordin with a g bush to the , he course brandishes which the this fish weapon take . their netsfol

    The fishermennever losing sight of the Huer , let down , - lowing the directions , he gives with rush his bush to their , and doom then wait These , breath nets

    lessl are very y , while large the , extending poor pilchards sometimes on nearly a mile in . length , the cost of such a one being from £ 100 to £ 150 ; they are The called nets " Seines "

    and are formed of long strips of fine meshes . are generally netted by the fishers' wives months and daughters ; several frequentl in y the by

    themselves cottages in , progress during the ; the winter meshes were . an We inch saw square—twelve to the footandalthough called small , were to be of fifty fathoms '

    depth . , They , were made of fine white twine , -which looked almost

    292 Jstewiiyn And Its Pishwomeist.

    292 _JSTEWIiYN AND ITS _PISHWOMEIST .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1862, page 292, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011862/page/4/