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BULLETIN 127, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



The majority of the Key West smackees are slightly smaller than 

 the Jejf Brown^ and differ from the latter in having square vertical 

 sterns with their rudders hung outside. They sail well and are re- 

 puted to be seaworthy and able in strong winds. 

 ])eposited by the Bureau of Fisheries. Cat. No. 76,258 U.S.N.M. 



Model of lugger. 



The model represents a type of single-masted lug-rigged boat ex- 

 tensively employed in coast fisheries of the Gulf of Mexico, from 



FIG. 52. NEW ORLEANS LOGGER. 



New Orleans, La., and adjacent localities. Boats of this form are 

 distinctly European in origin; they are built and manned chiefly 

 by Italians or other natives of southern Europe. 



