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Title: A voyage to the arctic in the whaler Aurora
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Lindsay, David Moore, 1862-
Subjects: Aurora (Ship) Whaling
Publisher: Boston : Dana Estes & Co.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ction is the salmon and trout fish-ing. The rivers, especial^ on the west coast, arewell stocked, white trout being particularly nu-merous. St. Johns harbor is entered through the nar-rows. On the left, going in, there is the lighthouse;and on the right, or north side, the signal station.On this side is the city, lying at the foot of lowhills, its principal street. Water Street, beingparallel with the shore. From it run side streetsdown to the wharves and up the hill to the resi-dences and churches. The Dundee ships lay onthe south side, our yard being nearest the nar-rows. From it a path led out to the lighthousepoint. A hundred yards from the ship one wason the hillside and without the pale of everything,because only a narrow fringe of buildings sepa-rated the south shore from the wilds. Along thewater edge, between our ship and the lighthouse,one passed lots of fish flakes. These were con-structed of a framework of vertical and horizon-tal poles covered over with spruce boughs upon
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IN THE WHALER AURORA 35 which the sj^lit codfish were laid after beingsalted. The air circulated under and around themwell and they soon dried. I saw codfish beingdried on the beach in Shetland, but they wereonly spread on the shingle. There are no treesin Shetland from which poles could be made, butthere is less precipitation there than in New-foundland, so the fish dry well upon the shingle.It is over 300 years since the Newfoundlandfisheries began to be worked. They proved thecountrys first attraction and there is nothingof the sort in the world like them. For the fiveyears 1871 to 75 the export of dried cod was1,333,009 quintals of 112 pounds. The Basquesfirst appeared on the scene and a port on the westcoast to-day bears their name, Port aux Basques.As early as 1527 an English shipmaster, on enter-ing St. Johns harbor, found eleven ships fromNorway, one from Breton and ten from Portugal,all fishing. In looking over the exports for 1881 one noticesseveral interesting items; one is

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