At last, amid this suspense, more tedious than a tropic calm, one more daring or more far-seeing than the rest stood up and suggested a visit to the pearl-fishings at the Riviere de la Hache.
Most of the fishermen hereabout can never do it, owing to the way they live and the smallfishings they make.
From twenty-five to thirty years ago I had several opportunities of seeing how the fishings were conducted Barra and South Uist.
Is it the general opinion in the country that he has undertaken to manage the fishings on his father's estates?
There is no difference in the fishings to which they go.
I am not sure that the original proprietor had not a Crown charter which gave him a right to the whole fishings, including oyster fishings and others; and I think we have the whole of these rights.
Your fishingsare at Voe, Papa Stour, Stenness, and the Skerries?
The fishingsare prosecuted on the coasts in small boats in spring and summer, but the best of the men are employed out of the islands, and the fishings are now very unimportant.
The balance is against me at present, and it has been against me since the first year of the company in consequence of bad fishings and bad crops.
I should fancy that over the whole of my fishings £200 would cover the whole amount that is paid in advances during the season.
Do you entertain that opinion with regard to other fishermen, strong young men, who are able to make better fishings than those you are now speaking of?
I rather understand they have the choice of getting cash or goods in the other fishings as well at any time if they like: is not that so?
The man, if he is a free man, can use his boat for any of the other fishings except the herring fishing?
But some seasons ago, when the fishings and the crops were not so good, were there many such men?
These fishings do not open (either for net or rod) till the 15th of February.
Footnote 14: The net fishings in the Tweed do not close till the 16th of October, and the lovers of the angle are allowed an additional fortnight.
Mellon Charles still belongs to the Gairloch Mackenzies, as well as Isle Ewe, and the whole right to the salmon fishings of Loch Ewe, the River Ewe, and Loch Maree.
Hogarth, of Aberdeen, the lessee of the salmon-fishings on the extensive sea coast of Gairloch.
The produce of the fishings is uncertain, and varies greatly from year to year.
Salmon and sea-trout fishings in Scotland belong exclusively to the crown and its grantees.
In Gairloch the fishingsare held by Sir Kenneth Mackenzie, Bart.
There are great fishings in the adjacent islands of Scotland, where many Hollanders do fish all the summer, and plentifully vent their fishes into Spain and within the Straits.
The sea fishingsare plentiful of all manner of fishes, especially herrings and eels.
Some good trout and salmon fishing; some by permission, and some fishings may be hired.
He made his living by taking shootings andfishings from Caithness proprietors.
He knew how to deal with gentlemen, and men felt safe in his hands, and voids in his shootings and fishings were rare.
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