64 In Great Waters

engineer, crew, and cook, allin one. My parish has
a coast-line of 150 miles. The Broadcaster is a
motor-boat fitted with a 12-18-horsepower Kelvin
sleeve-valve engine, is thirty-six feet and six inches
in length, and is designed to ride easily on the long
heavy swells of the west coast.

In the fishing plants the East and West meet.
Fifty per cent. of the employees are Orientals, the
others are Indians and white people. Those
engaged in the actual fishing are nearly all Scottish
fishermen. During the fishing season the fish plants
work day and night. The seine boats are not al-
lowed to fish between the hours of 6 p.m., on Satur-
day and 6 p.m., on Sunday, but that time is used
for overhauling their gear and making repairs. This
tends to a disregard for the Sunday, and creates a
difficulty in holding services. The missionary must
ever keep in touch with the fishing plants, visiting
the men on their boats, and at their work, and to
grasp any opportunity that may present itself to
hold public worship. The following may appear a
fruitless day’s work, but, in the end, the question
may be raised, was it?

After a morning service held at Bamfield, the
mission boat set sail for San Mateo, a distance of
ten miles. The cannery was found to be working
at its fullest capacity, with the result that the mis-
sionary had to pull out, setting sail again for another
fishing plant, five miles further on where he met
with the same result. A similar experience was
repeated after another journey of fourteen miles,