Excerpt from Brothers of Peril: A Story of Old Newfoundland During the three centuries directly following John Cabot's discovery of Newfoundland, that un fortunate island was. The sport of careless kings, self ish adventurers, and diligent pirates. While Eng land, France, Spain, and Portugal were busy with courts and kings, and with spectacular battles, their fishermen and adventurers toiled together and fought together about the misty headlands of that far island. Fish, not glory, was their quest Full cargoes, sweetly cured, was their desire and let fame go hang About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.