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Abalone fishery 37,38,40 



Abalones, dried 37, 38, 40 



shells of 37 



Abby Dodge, schooner, strnck by tornado. __ Ill 



Accidents considered unlucky 62 



Aid societies 127,128 



Alabama, fishermen of 5,27 



Alameda County, California, Chinese in 39 



Alaska, fishermen of 5, 6 



American Coast Pilot 102 



American fishermen.. ..7, 11, 24, 25,27, 28, 29, 42, 46 



Amusements of fishermen.- 26, 74 



Anchor, breaking out of 130, 135 



Anchoring a vessel, method of 130,133 



Andrew Leighton, schooner, accident to. 106 



Antarctic seal fishery 61,93, 106 



dangers of 126 



Appalaehicola, fishermen of 25 



Spanish Creoles at 25 



Arctic whaling, dangers of 117 



Ardent spirits on vessels 8 



Atwood, Capt. X. E., autobiography of 149 



lecturesby 57 



Austrian fishermen 6, 35, 36 



Authority of skipper of vessel 98 



Avarice of Chinese __ 40 



Azoreans at home 31 



dress of. 32 



Azores, destruction of vineyards at 31 



fishermen from.. 6 



habits and customs at 31,32 



reason for emigration from 31 



whale fishery at 152 



Babson, Capt. F. J., on patriotism of fishermen _. 82 



on provincial fisheries . . 14 



Bahama fishermen 6, 24 



Bait, capelin for 151 



clams for 150 



effects of scarcity of 10, 11 



manner of icing 78 



sand-eels as 155 



Baiting-stations, life at 77 



Baiting the trawls 75 



Ballads, fishermen's 50 



Bank Bradley, fishing on 156 



Bank fisheries, dangers of 105 



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Barometer .. 102 



Barragnda, fishery for 34 



Barrels, fish, manufacturers of 5 



Barvel or apron 68,86 87 



Bass fishery, profits of, for schools. 48 



Bay des Chaleurs fishermen 16 



Bay men of Long Island 22 



B. D. Hawkins, schooner, accident to 108 



Bed-clothing 89 



Belgians on Great Lakes 45 



Beliefs regarding natural phenomena 63 



Berlin exhibition, fishery exhibition at 59, 89,92 



Beverly, fishermen of 79,91 



Black bass fishery 35 



Block Island, fishermen of : 55 



Bluefish fishery 16S 



Blunt's American Coast Pilot 102 



Boarding-houses, sailor 43,73 



Boat builders 5 



Boat -fishermen of Maine 7,10 



of Portland 11 



Boats, Chinese - 40 



Italian 36 



repairs of .142,145 



Books read by fishermen G8, 70 



Boots, called stompers 68 



fishermen's 87 



part of share for trip 155 



Bosphorus, st earner, in collision 114 



Boston, fishermen of 7 



Irishmen at _. 21 



Bounty to vessels in cod-fishery... 158 



Bowley, Captain Gideon 90,94 



Bowsprit, loss of 143 



Box-makers... 5 



Boxhaulinga schooner 130,131 



Boys, training of 50,51 



Bravery of fishermen 85 



British fishermen 7 



British Provinces, whalemen from 7 



British Provincial fishermen 6, 7, 14, 49, 54 



Boughton, Nicholas 80 



Brown's Bank, dangerous shoal on 111 



Burke, James, rescue of 124 



Buyer, dependence on 10 



Cables, loss of 105 



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