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CHAPTER VI.

Characteristics of the InliahRants—Pursuits, &c.——Manner of Killing Seals —-Shore F ishery—Bauk Fishery, 8w.

THE leading features of the character of the inha- bitants of Newfoundland, both at St John’s and all the out-harbours, are, honesty, persevering industry, hardy contempt of danger and fatigue, and a lauda— ble sense of propriety in moral and religious duties. For upwards of twenty years, not more than four nialefactors were sentenced to die. “ A few months’ imprisonment was the greatest punishment inflicted for the last ten years.”6

There are places of public worship in each of the out-harbours in which there is an adequate popu- lation. The religious denominations are, members of the church of England, Roman Catholics, Presbyte- rians, Independents, and Methodists, each of whom have clergymen among them. In the principal out- harbours, also, there are schools where the rudiments of education may be acquired. The clergymen of the established church are supported by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts ; and the Methodist missionaries are supported chiefly

* Mr Morris’s pamphlet.