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hour to get a hole through seven feet of ice, and a fish net fifty feet
long can be set under the ice in half a day. When it is once set it can
be satisfactorily tended after an expenditure of half an hour of time per
day. If we were trying to fish in the polar ocean we would have no trouble
in setting our nets nor in tending them. However, we never have done so
because we never have been pressed for food. The seals are so much easier
to secure and so much more valuable when you have caught them.

Mr. A. J. Taylor,
614 Credit Foncier Building,
Vancouver, B. C., Canada.