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     fishermen. Incidentally these residents would become 
     
     inhabitants of the new lands, their needs would be 
     
     supplied annually by the vessels which should be sent 
     
     out to carry their fish to Europe; and out of this two- 
     
     fold activity would arise double profit for the 
     
     founders of this industry, while the enterprise as a 
     
     whole, in that it provided colonies for France and 
     
     fish for Catholic Europe, would redound to the wel- 
     
     fare of France and to the glory of God. 
     
    

    
     The sedentary fishery offered further advantages 
     
     in that permanent residents could emulate the Indian 
     
     in capturing the walrus and the seal which fre- 
     
     quented the shores of Isle Saint Jean and the Mag- 
     
     dalens. It was the prospect of expanding the fishing 
     
     industry to include the walrus and the seal which 
     
     induced the various grantees to ask for Isle Saint 
     
     Jean and the other islands in the Gulf of St. Law- 
     
     rence. The walrus was sought after for its teeth and 
     
     its hide, the seal for its fur, the cod as food, and all 
     
     three for their oils. 
     
    

    
     Though in other parts of New France the fur 
     
     trade monopolized the time and circumscribed the 
     
     ambitions of the adventurers from the Old World, on 
     
     the coasts of Acadia and in the Gulf of St. Lawrence 
     
     the fisheries called forth the greater rivalry and 
     
     produced the greater wealth. The life of the fur- 
     
     trader here was much less romantic than that of the 
     
     inland trader, and it neither required nor developed 
     
     that vigorous type of character which was called 
     
     forth by the distances, the perils, the rivalries of 
     
     the Western trade. On the other hand there was a