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To: long-gone who wrote (90924)	11/7/2002 5:49:43 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 116906

I am merely a baiter's apprentice. I have aspired to imitate me dad, who ran the fishing trawler and was a master-baiter. Only with years of experience can one attain that seasoned status. Here is to all the master baiters and all the fish they may catch. In St John's there is a statue to Giovanni Caboto, who was the principle baiter of the fleet. The Inscription reads "Giovanni Caboto, 1497, Discoveror of Newfoundland, Master Baiter of the English Cod Fishing Fleet and Head of all the Sea Men." Actually fisherman of Bristol discovered the Cod grounds of Newfoundland in 1480, 12 years before Columbus claimed Hispaniola as the first land fall of the new world. Where else would they have got that cod from in those days near a large island? The idea that Cartier was first in Canada is of course Liberal party fiction. "Although the European re-discovery of Newfoundland is generally credited to John Cabot in 1497, we know that as early as the 1480s, English ships were venturing into the unknown Atlantic Ocean. The first known voyage, by John Day, occurred in 1480. In 1481, two Bristol ships, the George and the Trinity, sailed in search of "a certain Isle called the Isle of Brasile," a fabled place whose name was derived from a Gaelic word meaning "blessed" or "fortunate". The ships in 1481 carried salt, suggesting that the purpose of the voyage had been to fish. In 1498, a Spaniard in London claimed that the people of Bristol had sponsored a number of voyages over the previous several years in search of the fabled island of Brazil. Finally, there is the letter written by John Day, an English merchant active in the Spanish trade, reporting on John Cabot's expedition of 1497; Day claimed that what Cabot discovered "is assumed and believed to be the mainland that the Bristol men found." John Day's letter. This letter was written by the English merchant John Day to an unidentified Spanish 'Lord Grand Admiral' who is believed to have been Christopher Columbus. From Ian Wilson, John Cabot and the Matthew (Tiverton, England: Redcliffe Press, © 1996) 6. Courtesy of the Spanish National Archives. Valladolid, Spain. (40 kb) All this has led some scholars to suggest that these pre-Cabot Bristol expeditions had actually discovered the Newfoundland fishing grounds, and that their sponsors had kept this discovery a secret for as long as possible in order not to share the fishing grounds with anyone else. Alwyn Ruddock offers the more cautious conclusion that these several voyages were unsuccessful efforts to re- discover a fishery which had been found by accident but then was lost." EC<:-}