418 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATE^^ ELSU COMMISSION. 

 CERTIFICATE OF DR. JOSEPH GARLAND. 



This may certify that I w*as called to visit Franklin D. Langsford, of 

 Lanesville, in Gloucester, on August 12, in consultation with Dr. Levi 

 Saunders, who was in attendance uj^on the said Langsford, on account 

 of a wound inflicted upon his body by a swordfish on the 9th instant, 

 said swordfish having driven its sword through the bottom of the fishing- 

 dory he was in to the length of 23 inches, penetrating the body of 

 Langsford at the right of the os coccyx and entering about 7 inches, by 

 the side of the rectum, into the pelvic cavity j that said Langsford was 

 dying, and did die, in my presence, of peritonitis, having survived the 

 injury about three days; that the sword accompanying this certificate 

 is the veritable sword that occasioned the accident, and is to be sent to 

 the National Museum, at Washington. 



Gloucester, Mass., October 14, 1886. 



120 NOTE* OIV THE IVEW BNOIiAlVD FBJiillERIES IIV NOVEMBER, 



1SS6. 



By W. A. "WILCOX. 



During the month the fishermen have used their best exertions to 

 makeup in a measure for an unprofitable season. The result has not 

 been satisfactory, as the mackerel, pollock, and shore-herring catch all 

 proved more or less a failure, while the codfish catch showed a slight 

 gain over that of the corresponding month of last year. 



The amount of mackerel landed by the New England fleet at the lead- 

 ing ports was the smallest of any November for years, namely : 



Locality. 



rrotn off provincial shores 



From oil' tlie New England coast 



Total, in sea^paclced barrels 



Fares. Barrels. 



17 

 51 



2, .547 

 2,800 



68 



5,350 



The total amount of the catch up to November 30 was about 80,000 

 sea-packed barrels. The arrivals from the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, with 

 few exceptions, had a small amount of fish, some not a barrel, after 

 having spent from two to three mouths on the fishing-grounds. Among 

 the last arrivals from off provincial shores were the schooners Fannie 

 W. Freeman, from a two months' cruise, with 40 barrels of mackerel ; 

 Spencer F. Baird, absent three months, 11 barrels of mackerel ; Her- 

 man Babson, 3 barrels of mackerel; J. H. French, the last arrival, 11 

 barrels of mackerel. These vessels caught no other kind of fish on 

 their voyages. The late or fall catch of mackerel off the provincial 

 shores was di8ai)pointing and a failure to all engaged, native, shore, and 



